diff --git a/Changes b/Changes
index ed73f5f27..ba63ea538 100644
--- a/Changes
+++ b/Changes
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ The contributors that suggested a given feature are shown in [].  [by ...]
 indicates the contributor was also the author of the fix; Thanks!
 
 
-* Verilator 3.853 devel
+* Verilator 3.853 2013-09-30
 
 ****  Add --no-order-clock-delay to work around bug613. [Charlie Brej]
 
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index ce314d82a..12f82a59f 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 
 #AC_INIT([Verilator],[#.### YYYY-MM-DD])
 #AC_INIT([Verilator],[#.### devel])
-AC_INIT([Verilator],[3.853 devel])
+AC_INIT([Verilator],[3.853 2013-09-30])
 AC_CONFIG_HEADER(src/config_build.h)
 AC_CONFIG_FILES(Makefile src/Makefile src/Makefile_obj include/verilated.mk include/verilated_config.h)