diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 114156162b5b9f2740793ec39faea3871ac833f2..8e3ecf7247d14c50f7a9b1e2c811ed478d733ecf 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -2,10 +2,20 @@ News
 ====
 
 
-Version 2.6.0 rc4
------------------
+Version 2.6.0
+-------------
+
+*(Released Fri, 27 Jul 2012)*
+
+
+.. attention:: The ``LUXI`` protocol has been made more consistent
+   regarding its handling of command arguments. This, however, leads to
+   incompatibility issues with previous versions. Please ensure that you
+   restart Ganeti daemons soon after the upgrade, otherwise most
+   ``LUXI`` calls (job submission, setting/resetting the drain flag,
+   pausing/resuming the watcher, cancelling and archiving jobs, querying
+   the cluster configuration) will fail.
 
-*(Released Thu, 19 Jul 2012)*
 
 New features
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~
@@ -305,10 +315,20 @@ changed to allow the same clock skew as permitted by the cluster
 verification. This will remove some rare but hard to diagnose errors in
 import-export.
 
-The ``LUXI`` protocol has been made more consistent regarding its
-handling of command arguments. This, however, leads to incompatibility
-issues with previous versions. Please ensure that you restart Ganeti
-daemons after the upgrade, otherwise job submission will fail.
+
+Version 2.6.0 rc4
+-----------------
+
+*(Released Thu, 19 Jul 2012)*
+
+Very few changes from rc4 to the final release, only bugfixes:
+
+- integrated fixes from release 2.5.2 (fix general boot flag for KVM
+  instance, fix CDROM booting for KVM instances)
+- fixed node group modification of node parameters
+- fixed issue in LUClusterVerifyGroup with multi-group clusters
+- fixed generation of bash completion to ensure a stable ordering
+- fixed a few typos
 
 
 Version 2.6.0 rc3
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 0d0630affbfbc5bedf7e95d6c7e7b7818e22b4f4..ebc00b36cad7a873b03dd095d641dc7de04568b3 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 m4_define([gnt_version_major], [2])
 m4_define([gnt_version_minor], [6])
 m4_define([gnt_version_revision], [0])
-m4_define([gnt_version_suffix], [~rc4])
+m4_define([gnt_version_suffix], [])
 m4_define([gnt_version_full],
           m4_format([%d.%d.%d%s],
                     gnt_version_major, gnt_version_minor,