diff --git a/ANNOUNCE b/ANNOUNCE
index 56c0535792..cc573e3a50 100644
--- a/ANNOUNCE
+++ b/ANNOUNCE
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
-Public release of LyX version 1.6.0 (release candidate 3)
+Public release of LyX version 1.6.0 (release candidate 4)
 =========================================================
 
-We are pleased to announce the third release candidate of LyX 1.6.0.
+We are pleased to announce the fourth release candidate of LyX 1.6.0.
 
 LyX 1.6.0 will be the culmination of 14 months of hard work since the
 release of the LyX 1.5 series. We sincerely hope you will enjoy the
@@ -43,11 +43,11 @@ http://www.lyx.org/ has to say on the subject:
    internationalized application running natively on Unix/Linux and the
    Macintosh and modern Windows platforms.
 
-You can download LyX 1.6.0rc3 here (the .bz2 are compressed with bzip2,
+You can download LyX 1.6.0rc4 here (the .bz2 are compressed with bzip2,
 which yields smaller files):
 
-	ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-1.6.0rc3.tar.gz
-	ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-1.6.0rc3.tar.bz2
+	ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-1.6.0rc4.tar.gz
+	ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-1.6.0rc4.tar.bz2
 
 Note that due to the amount of change, no patch is provided to upgrade
 from version 1.5.6.
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ Prebuilt binaries (rpms for linux distributions, Mac OS X and Windows
 installers) should soon be available at
 	ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/
 
-If you find what you think is a bug in LyX 1.6.0rc3, you may either
+If you find what you think is a bug in LyX 1.6.0rc4, you may either
 e-mail the LyX developers' mailing list (lyx-devel at lists.lyx.org), or open
 a bug report at http://bugzilla.lyx.org
 
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index fb7cca7573..7d9c8af489 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 dnl Process with autoconf to generate configure script   -*- sh -*-
 
-AC_INIT(LyX,1.6.0svn,[lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org],[lyx])
-AC_SUBST(LYX_DATE, ["Fri, Sep 26, 2008"])
+AC_INIT(LyX,1.6.0rc4,[lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org],[lyx])
+AC_SUBST(LYX_DATE, ["Thu, Oct 23, 2008"])
 AC_PREREQ(2.52)
 AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR(src/main.cpp)
 AC_CONFIG_HEADERS([config.h])