diff --git a/VERSION.txt b/VERSION.txt
index 1b0fdc8b462..53e9eaa7457 100644
--- a/VERSION.txt
+++ b/VERSION.txt
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Sage version 6.2.rc2, released 2014-05-04
+Sage version 6.2, released 2014-05-06
diff --git a/build/pkgs/configure/checksums.ini b/build/pkgs/configure/checksums.ini
index e2313f78843..5137091ba15 100644
--- a/build/pkgs/configure/checksums.ini
+++ b/build/pkgs/configure/checksums.ini
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 tarball=configure-VERSION.tar.gz
-sha1=d1df34c77fa1ad4a844aa4becce56c301b6755e0
-md5=d1962cf76847ec2bb5396e1e3773d523
-cksum=2519457211
+sha1=61c073042a1329f34af67ae4b420c791f12aa199
+md5=41bc80778003eb287b724138bdc75fe8
+cksum=2346983684
diff --git a/build/pkgs/configure/package-version.txt b/build/pkgs/configure/package-version.txt
index 7273c0fa8c5..6f4247a6255 100644
--- a/build/pkgs/configure/package-version.txt
+++ b/build/pkgs/configure/package-version.txt
@@ -1 +1 @@
-25
+26
diff --git a/src/bin/sage-banner b/src/bin/sage-banner
index ccff3f5dba7..a698d8aa6dd 100644
--- a/src/bin/sage-banner
+++ b/src/bin/sage-banner
@@ -1,8 +1,5 @@
 ┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
-│ Sage Version 6.2.rc2, Release Date: 2014-05-04                     │
+│ Sage Version 6.2, Release Date: 2014-05-06                         │
 │ 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 e810ea9314d..23ca4570ea5 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='6.2.rc2'
-SAGE_RELEASE_DATE='2014-05-04'
+SAGE_VERSION='6.2'
+SAGE_RELEASE_DATE='2014-05-06'
diff --git a/src/sage/version.py b/src/sage/version.py
index b79aa175b11..84a3e5afa67 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 = '6.2.rc2'
-date = '2014-05-04'
+version = '6.2'
+date = '2014-05-06'