diff --git a/CHANGES/v2.2.txt b/CHANGES/v2.2.txt
index befdf9b4fa0bbce374428ac3c3c4cf4cc179cadf..0e68d6322f99e32cd88358b4cf0fb1449802f613 100644
--- a/CHANGES/v2.2.txt
+++ b/CHANGES/v2.2.txt
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 @page CHANGES-2-2 Version 2.2
 
-Version 2.2 (coming soon)
+Version 2.2 (Oct 13, 2015)
 ----------------------------
 
 Include all fixes in branch 2.1 indicated in \ref CHANGES-2-1 .
diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index d93b83ba274c3626ab14d06603f3570c0596a8a0..2f118fad1ab09ac45536694f239e488c78c6aedc 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
-2.2b
+2.2.0