diff --git a/CHANGES/v2.2.txt b/CHANGES/v2.2.txt
index e028e6f0b5d0030dbb8a4df2a0e3949107d0f5e0..3eab568b93b039ee44e89e7c9ece09e90cdbe9db 100644
--- a/CHANGES/v2.2.txt
+++ b/CHANGES/v2.2.txt
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ For developers:
   in cmd strings.
 - ./configure is not automatically relaunched anymore when doing `make clean`.
 
-Version 2.2.3 (coming soon)
+Version 2.2.3 (Jun 30, 2016)
 ----------------------------------------------
 
 For users:
diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index ea0ddd64fff44581a7e4f0b5b64d6949f5dcad13..c68ef502ae80a7a2841548dcd0861e2748743f37 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -5,4 +5,4 @@
 # (this is same as gromacs)
 # Notice that "plumed --version" will return only 2.X
 # and "plumed --long-version" will return the full string
-2.2.2
+2.2.3