diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index a7e286b..0bdad61 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@
     <!-- do not use snapshot suffix here -->
     <commons.release.version>1.0</commons.release.version>
     <commons.release.desc>(requires Java 6+)</commons.release.desc>
-    <commons.rc.version>RC3</commons.rc.version>
+    <commons.rc.version>RC6</commons.rc.version>
     <commons.binary.suffix>-bin</commons.binary.suffix>
 
     <commons.jira.id>RNG</commons.jira.id>
diff --git a/src/changes/changes.xml b/src/changes/changes.xml
index cb5cbad..3e2cd62 100644
--- a/src/changes/changes.xml
+++ b/src/changes/changes.xml
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@
     <title>Apache Commons RNG Release Notes</title>
   </properties>
   <body>
-    <release version="1.0" date="2016-11-30" description="
+    <release version="1.0" date="2016-12-20" description="
 This is the first release of Apache Commons RNG.
 
 Apache Commons RNG 1.0 contains the following modules: