diff --git a/RELEASE.md b/RELEASE.md
index 7e51096736cf2..49e015e3c53fa 100644
--- a/RELEASE.md
+++ b/RELEASE.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-OQS-OpenSSL_1\_1\_1-stable snapshot 2021-08-rc1
+OQS-OpenSSL_1\_1\_1-stable snapshot 2021-08
 ===============================================
 
 About
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ The **Open Quantum Safe (OQS) project** has the goal of developing and prototypi
 Release notes
 =============
 
-This is release candidate 1 for the the 2021-08 snapshot release of OQS-OpenSSL, which was released on August 8, 2021. This release is intended to be used with liboqs version 0.7.0.
+This is the 2021-08 snapshot release of OQS-OpenSSL, which was released on August 11, 2021. This release is intended to be used with liboqs version 0.7.0.
 
 What's New
 ----------
diff --git a/include/openssl/opensslv.h b/include/openssl/opensslv.h
index 85fef23924af1..7ef3fc5be052a 100644
--- a/include/openssl/opensslv.h
+++ b/include/openssl/opensslv.h
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ extern "C" {
  *  major minor fix final patch/beta)
  */
 # define OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER  0x101010bfL
-# define OPENSSL_VERSION_TEXT    "OpenSSL 1.1.1k  25 Mar 2021, Open Quantum Safe 2021-08 snapshot rc1"
+# define OPENSSL_VERSION_TEXT    "OpenSSL 1.1.1k  25 Mar 2021, Open Quantum Safe 2021-08 snapshot"
 
 /*-
  * The macros below are to be used for shared library (.so, .dll, ...)