diff --git a/VERSION.txt b/VERSION.txt
index 5451ba06475..c5542c08be6 100644
--- a/VERSION.txt
+++ b/VERSION.txt
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Sage version 6.8.rc1, released 2015-07-22
+Sage version 6.8, released 2015-07-26
diff --git a/build/pkgs/configure/checksums.ini b/build/pkgs/configure/checksums.ini
index 4ca76832d75..3886688c32b 100644
--- a/build/pkgs/configure/checksums.ini
+++ b/build/pkgs/configure/checksums.ini
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 tarball=configure-VERSION.tar.gz
-sha1=15017ecd9fb9a364c39b472f8e7f54ba9c288dd0
-md5=8f22aaf6e479fd543bf713865288d305
-cksum=895085547
+sha1=399df3d81aaaf47f0d7ed502378575a17fe8da55
+md5=037928df1bdcfde813640edd508a2757
+cksum=690617713
diff --git a/build/pkgs/configure/package-version.txt b/build/pkgs/configure/package-version.txt
index b16e5f75e31..f96ac067218 100644
--- a/build/pkgs/configure/package-version.txt
+++ b/build/pkgs/configure/package-version.txt
@@ -1 +1 @@
-104
+105
diff --git a/src/bin/sage-banner b/src/bin/sage-banner
index 22c0ebf1a98..85126bc7079 100644
--- a/src/bin/sage-banner
+++ b/src/bin/sage-banner
@@ -1,8 +1,5 @@
 ┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
-│ SageMath Version 6.8.rc1, Release Date: 2015-07-22                 │
+│ SageMath Version 6.8, Release Date: 2015-07-26                     │
 │ Type "notebook()" for the browser-based notebook interface.        │
 │ Type "help()" for help.                                            │
 └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
-┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
-┃ Warning: this is a prerelease version, and it may be unstable.     ┃
-┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛
diff --git a/src/bin/sage-version.sh b/src/bin/sage-version.sh
index 68303902a17..ae9d2fb7148 100644
--- a/src/bin/sage-version.sh
+++ b/src/bin/sage-version.sh
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 # Sage version information for shell scripts
 # This file is auto-generated by the sage-update-version script, do not edit!
-SAGE_VERSION='6.8.rc1'
-SAGE_RELEASE_DATE='2015-07-22'
+SAGE_VERSION='6.8'
+SAGE_RELEASE_DATE='2015-07-26'
diff --git a/src/sage/version.py b/src/sage/version.py
index 8785ec6e8ac..54079b0cd62 100644
--- a/src/sage/version.py
+++ b/src/sage/version.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 # Sage version information for Python scripts
 # This file is auto-generated by the sage-update-version script, do not edit!
-version = '6.8.rc1'
-date = '2015-07-22'
+version = '6.8'
+date = '2015-07-26'