diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 57755456bc..85d1a62613 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ endif()
 set(VERSION_MAJOR 1)
 set(VERSION_MINOR 6)
 set(VERSION_PATCH 0)
-set(VERSION_SUFFIX rc2)
+#set(VERSION_SUFFIX rc2)
 
 if (VERSION_SUFFIX)
    set(VERSION_FULL "${VERSION_MAJOR}.${VERSION_MINOR}.${VERSION_PATCH}-${VERSION_SUFFIX}")
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index cd7c909df8..cd83ee8e78 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # EOSIO.CDT (Contract Development Toolkit)
-## Version : 1.6.0-rc2
+## Version : 1.6.0
 
 EOSIO.CDT is a toolchain for WebAssembly (WASM) and set of tools to facilitate contract writing for the EOSIO platform.  In addition to being a general purpose WebAssembly toolchain, [EOSIO](https://github.com/eosio/eos) specific optimizations are available to support building EOSIO smart contracts.  This new toolchain is built around [Clang 7](https://github.com/eosio/llvm), which means that EOSIO.CDT has the most currently available optimizations and analyses from LLVM, but as the WASM target is still considered experimental, some optimizations are not available or incomplete.