diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
index d28ef58299..4720141b55 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-git-annex (6.20160908) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
+git-annex (6.20160923) unstable; urgency=medium
 
   * Rate limit console progress display updates to 10 per second.
     Was updating as frequently as changes were reported, up to hundreds of
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ git-annex (6.20160908) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
     This bug has been fixed.
   * addurl, importfeed: Improve behavior when file being added is gitignored.
 
- -- Joey Hess <id@joeyh.name>  Thu, 08 Sep 2016 12:48:55 -0400
+ -- Joey Hess <id@joeyh.name>  Fri, 23 Sep 2016 09:43:26 -0400
 
 git-annex (6.20160907) unstable; urgency=medium
 
diff --git a/git-annex.cabal b/git-annex.cabal
index 2a3728090a..c1607208e4 100644
--- a/git-annex.cabal
+++ b/git-annex.cabal
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 Name: git-annex
-Version: 6.20160907
+Version: 6.20160923
 Cabal-Version: >= 1.8
 License: GPL-3
 Maintainer: Joey Hess <id@joeyh.name>