diff --git a/CHANGES/v2.4.md b/CHANGES/v2.4.md
index eeceaec65966706e86204e97a8831a4785cc664a..8fb6917c15cbffc587dfeba1ffe94e7c915b5fe6 100644
--- a/CHANGES/v2.4.md
+++ b/CHANGES/v2.4.md
@@ -235,7 +235,7 @@ For users:
   - Fixed a bug in library search, possibly affecting linked blas/lapack on OSX (see \issue{476}).
   - Fixed a bug in \ref METAD with `TARGET` and `GRID_SPARSE` (see \issue{467}).
 
-## Version 2.4.7 (coming soon)
+## Version 2.4.7 (Jan 27, 2020)
 
 \plumednotmaintained
 
diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index aaa4081d4eb9ec83447ed8227c5ae8afaae09d21..612f62b94b62efccc331b0a3003e55774676bbeb 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -5,4 +5,4 @@
 # (this is same as gromacs)
 # Notice that "plumed info --version" will return only 2.X
 # and "plumed info --long-version" will return the full string
-2.4.6
+2.4.7