diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 29ba0b5e4..c70f8ce84 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ SET(OPENSCENEGRAPH_SOVERSION 156)
 
 # set to 0 when not a release candidate, non zero means that any generated
 # git tags will be treated as release candidates of given number
-SET(OPENSCENEGRAPH_RELEASE_CANDIDATE 5)
+SET(OPENSCENEGRAPH_RELEASE_CANDIDATE 6)
 set(CMAKE_ALLOW_LOOSE_LOOP_CONSTRUCTS TRUE)
 set_property(GLOBAL PROPERTY USE_FOLDERS ON)
 
diff --git a/NEWS.txt b/NEWS.txt
index 6217c06cc..91b6c7a0a 100644
--- a/NEWS.txt
+++ b/NEWS.txt
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ OSG News
 ========
 
 OpenSceneGraph 3.6 release
-PERTHSHIRE, Scotland - 5th April 2018 - OpenSceneGraph Professional Services announces the release of OpenSceneGraph 3.6.0, the industry's leading open-source scene graph technology, designed to accelerate application development and improve 3D graphics performance. OpenSceneGraph 3.6 written entirely in Standard C++ and built upon OpenGL, offers developers working in the visual simulation, game development, virtual reality, scientific visualization and modeling markets - a real-time visualization tool which eclipses commercial scene graph toolkits in functionality, stability and performance. OpenSceneGraph 3.6 runs on all Microsoft Windows platforms, Apple OS/X, IOS, GNU/Linux, Android, IRIX, Solaris, HP-UX, AIX and FreeBSD operating systems.
+PERTHSHIRE, Scotland - 6th April 2018 - OpenSceneGraph Professional Services announces the release of OpenSceneGraph 3.6.0, the industry's leading open-source scene graph technology, designed to accelerate application development and improve 3D graphics performance. OpenSceneGraph 3.6 written entirely in Standard C++ and built upon OpenGL, offers developers working in the visual simulation, game development, virtual reality, scientific visualization and modeling markets - a real-time visualization tool which eclipses commercial scene graph toolkits in functionality, stability and performance. OpenSceneGraph 3.6 runs on all Microsoft Windows platforms, Apple OS/X, IOS, GNU/Linux, Android, IRIX, Solaris, HP-UX, AIX and FreeBSD operating systems.
 Updates include:
 
   * OpenThreads::Affinity introduced to enable setting of processor affinity on viewer and database threads
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index d890bddbc..4f2025f74 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ If details below are not sufficient then head over to the openscenegraph.org to
 
 Robert Osfield.
 Project Lead.
-28th March 2017.
+6th April 2018.
 
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