diff --git a/Include/patchlevel.h b/Include/patchlevel.h
index b3e5422f4dc..b6b207f2b8c 100644
--- a/Include/patchlevel.h
+++ b/Include/patchlevel.h
@@ -19,11 +19,11 @@
 #define PY_MAJOR_VERSION	3
 #define PY_MINOR_VERSION	2
 #define PY_MICRO_VERSION	6
-#define PY_RELEASE_LEVEL	PY_RELEASE_LEVEL_GAMMA
-#define PY_RELEASE_SERIAL	1
+#define PY_RELEASE_LEVEL	PY_RELEASE_LEVEL_FINAL
+#define PY_RELEASE_SERIAL	0
 
 /* Version as a string */
-#define PY_VERSION      	"3.2.6rc1"
+#define PY_VERSION      	"3.2.6"
 /*--end constants--*/
 
 /* Subversion Revision number of this file (not of the repository). Empty
diff --git a/Lib/distutils/__init__.py b/Lib/distutils/__init__.py
index 382e4b1c9d0..6eb79cb6391 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/__init__.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/__init__.py
@@ -13,5 +13,5 @@ used from a setup script as
 # Updated automatically by the Python release process.
 #
 #--start constants--
-__version__ = "3.2.6rc1"
+__version__ = "3.2.6"
 #--end constants--
diff --git a/Lib/idlelib/idlever.py b/Lib/idlelib/idlever.py
index b69949dfd91..643ea9f2354 100644
--- a/Lib/idlelib/idlever.py
+++ b/Lib/idlelib/idlever.py
@@ -1 +1 @@
-IDLE_VERSION = "3.2.6rc1"
+IDLE_VERSION = "3.2.6"
diff --git a/Misc/RPM/python-3.2.spec b/Misc/RPM/python-3.2.spec
index 664589ee056..e0f94c58550 100644
--- a/Misc/RPM/python-3.2.spec
+++ b/Misc/RPM/python-3.2.spec
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@
 
 %define name python
 #--start constants--
-%define version 3.2.6rc1
+%define version 3.2.6
 %define libvers 3.2
 #--end constants--
 %define release 1pydotorg
diff --git a/README b/README
index 50f11e057af..7ecd6d123cd 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-This is Python version 3.2.6 release candidate 1
-================================================
+This is Python version 3.2.6
+============================
 
 Copyright (c) 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011,
 2012, 2013, 2014 Python Software Foundation.  All rights reserved.