diff --git a/CHANGES/v2.3.txt b/CHANGES/v2.3.txt
index b9449eb1a121d1ae5d2fac497666ba606bff26da..d198618381191a05e1b669342b4aedbac173f915 100644
--- a/CHANGES/v2.3.txt
+++ b/CHANGES/v2.3.txt
@@ -185,7 +185,7 @@ For developers:
 - On travis-ci, docs for unofficial or unsupported branches are set not to be indexed by search engines (see \issue{239})
 - Cppcheck on travis-ci has been updated to 1.79.
 
-## Version 2.3.3 (coming soon)
+## Version 2.3.3 (Oct 3, 2017)
 
 For users:
 - Fixed a bug in \ref switchingfunction MATHEVAL, leading to inconsistent results when using OpenMP with multiple threads (see \issue{249}).
diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index 6726e7f3650fda7d6dfd747c25668f3b895ec8fa..160c142c033d0f1d421fe6c87bdc1d3a22e8658a 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
-2.3.2
+2.3.3