diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 671a7a213..bafa1ee31 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ dnl
 AC_PREREQ(2.60)
 
 dnl should be "yes" only within the released distribution
-ISRELEASED="no"
+ISRELEASED="yes"
 if test $ISRELEASED = "no"; then
 	RELDATELONG=""
 	RELDATESHORT=""
@@ -26,9 +26,9 @@ VERSIONINFO=""
 dnl date of the released version (please zero pad the day in the last 2 dates)
 dnl for example: "4 February 2003", "04 Feb 2003", "2003-02-04"
 dnl date format strings: "%e %B %Y", "%d-%b-%Y", "%Y-%m-%d"
-RELDATELONG="06 November 2016"
-RELDATESHORT="06-Nov-2016"
-RELDATENUM="2016-11-06"
+RELDATELONG="05 September 2019"
+RELDATESHORT="05-Sep-2019"
+RELDATENUM="2019-10-05"
 
 # constant variable settings
 FVWMNAMELONG="F? Virtual Window Manager"
diff --git a/utils/fvwm-version-str.sh b/utils/fvwm-version-str.sh
index 7ebbe2d61..e3356d6fa 100755
--- a/utils/fvwm-version-str.sh
+++ b/utils/fvwm-version-str.sh
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 
 if grep -q -i '^ISRELEASED="yes"' ./configure.ac; then
 	# A release build.  Strip the git information off the tag name.
-	git describe --tags --abbrev=0 2>/dev/null || echo "2.6.8"
+	git describe --tags --abbrev=0 2>/dev/null || echo "2.6.9"
 else
 	git describe --always --long --dirty
 fi