diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 67e9bb1f7..a6bfc267b 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -7,6 +7,12 @@
                                History of Changes
 
 
+Version 7.9.4
+
+- no changes since pre-release
+
+Version 7.9.4-pre2
+
 Daniel (3 February 2002)
 - Eric Melville provided a few spelling corrections in the curl man page.
 
diff --git a/include/curl/curl.h b/include/curl/curl.h
index 07dafd748..420be3aa3 100644
--- a/include/curl/curl.h
+++ b/include/curl/curl.h
@@ -613,7 +613,7 @@ CURLcode curl_global_init(long flags);
 void curl_global_cleanup(void);
 
 /* This is the version number */
-#define LIBCURL_VERSION "7.9.4-pre2"
+#define LIBCURL_VERSION "7.9.4"
 #define LIBCURL_VERSION_NUM 0x070904
 
 /* linked-list structure for the CURLOPT_QUOTE option (and other) */
diff --git a/src/version.h b/src/version.h
index 9a4a9b5b3..ef640f0a3 100644
--- a/src/version.h
+++ b/src/version.h
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 #define CURL_NAME "curl"
-#define CURL_VERSION "7.9.4-pre2"
+#define CURL_VERSION "7.9.4"
 #define CURL_ID CURL_NAME " " CURL_VERSION " (" OS ") "