diff --git a/Changes b/Changes
index 6d510e4b2..85d4e1f51 100644
--- a/Changes
+++ b/Changes
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Revision history for Verilator
 The contributors that suggested a given feature are shown in [].  [by ...]
 indicates the contributor was also the author of the fix; Thanks!
 
-* Verilator 3.856 devel
+* Verilator 3.856 2014-03-11
 
 ***   Support case inside, bug708. [Jan Egil Ruud]
 
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index a26684920..a82d58a00 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 
 #AC_INIT([Verilator],[#.### YYYY-MM-DD])
 #AC_INIT([Verilator],[#.### devel])
-AC_INIT([Verilator],[3.856 devel])
+AC_INIT([Verilator],[3.856 2014-03-11])
 AC_CONFIG_HEADER(src/config_build.h)
 AC_CONFIG_FILES(Makefile src/Makefile src/Makefile_obj include/verilated.mk include/verilated_config.h)