diff --git a/VERSION.txt b/VERSION.txt
index d4d5de2d5af..c152a49d9d0 100644
--- a/VERSION.txt
+++ b/VERSION.txt
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Sage version 7.0.rc1, released 2016-01-14
+Sage version 7.0, released 2016-01-19
diff --git a/build/pkgs/configure/checksums.ini b/build/pkgs/configure/checksums.ini
index 952cc1eab82..0482c018bb4 100644
--- a/build/pkgs/configure/checksums.ini
+++ b/build/pkgs/configure/checksums.ini
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 tarball=configure-VERSION.tar.gz
-sha1=5718238d9da2cc8a70a66d9dff3f6da33d0cb579
-md5=3f84f3806e725dbfe742d8b6a22750f9
-cksum=7625246
+sha1=631a348f0ac864b3ec37dfcb1d7fab79e213a075
+md5=5759d84c96102aee89c7eaea0aadf842
+cksum=2510923339
diff --git a/build/pkgs/configure/package-version.txt b/build/pkgs/configure/package-version.txt
index 897bdc8200c..dee261df401 100644
--- a/build/pkgs/configure/package-version.txt
+++ b/build/pkgs/configure/package-version.txt
@@ -1 +1 @@
-139
+140
diff --git a/src/bin/sage-banner b/src/bin/sage-banner
index e56222a0a7a..1d71aa46db5 100644
--- a/src/bin/sage-banner
+++ b/src/bin/sage-banner
@@ -1,8 +1,5 @@
 ┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
-│ SageMath Version 7.0.rc1, Release Date: 2016-01-14                 │
+│ SageMath Version 7.0, Release Date: 2016-01-19                     │
 │ 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 a7baec7e945..0853b4fc51d 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='7.0.rc1'
-SAGE_RELEASE_DATE='2016-01-14'
+SAGE_VERSION='7.0'
+SAGE_RELEASE_DATE='2016-01-19'
diff --git a/src/sage/version.py b/src/sage/version.py
index 715a9549caa..b9dd9bf2423 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 = '7.0.rc1'
-date = '2016-01-14'
+version = '7.0'
+date = '2016-01-19'