diff --git a/docs/overview/changelog.md b/docs/overview/changelog.md
index 4e0996789f..299ab16428 100644
--- a/docs/overview/changelog.md
+++ b/docs/overview/changelog.md
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ This page the release history for the Zulip server. See also the
 
 ## Zulip 6.x series
 
-### 6.0 -- unreleased
+### 6.0-rc1 -- 2022-11-02
 
 This section is an incomplete draft of the release notes for the next
 major release, and is only updated occasionally. See the [commit
diff --git a/version.py b/version.py
index 0a7143b097..2c5fdb449e 100644
--- a/version.py
+++ b/version.py
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 import os
 
-ZULIP_VERSION = "6.0-dev+git"
+ZULIP_VERSION = "6.0-rc1"
 
 # Add information on number of commits and commit hash to version, if available
 zulip_git_version_file = os.path.join(