diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 77d92f72e5..0806fcc4e1 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-2017-03-24 - V4.00.00-alpha
+2018-10-29 - V4.0.0
   * Added new neural network system based on LSTMs, with major accuracy gains.
   * Improvements to PDF rendering.
   * Fixes to trainingdata rendering.
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
   * Enabled OpenMP support.
   * Parameter unlv_tilde_crunching change to false.
   * Miscellaneous Fixes.
+  * Detailed Changelog can be foud at https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/wiki/4.0x-Changelog and https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/wiki/ReleaseNotes#tesseract-release-notes-oct-29-2018---v400
 
 2017-02-16 - V3.05.00
   * Made some fine tuning to the hOCR output.
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index c9e6c429fb..80cd2d96a2 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -39,7 +39,9 @@ at Hewlett-Packard Co, Greeley Colorado between 1985 and 1994, with some
 more changes made in 1996 to port to Windows, and some C++izing in 1998.
 In 2005 Tesseract was open sourced by HP. Since 2006 it is developed by Google.
 
-The latest stable version is **[3.05.01](https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/releases/tag/3.05.01)**, released on June 1, 2017. Latest source code for 3.05 is available from [3.05 branch on GitHub](https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/tree/3.05).
+The latest stable version is **[4.0.0](https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/releases/tag/4.0.0)**, released on October 29, 2018. Latest source code for 4.0 is available from [master branch on GitHub](https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/tree/master). Open issues can be found in [issue tracker](https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/issues), and [Planning wiki](https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/wiki/Planning#400).
+
+The latest 3.5 version is **[3.05.02](https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/releases/tag/3.05.02)**, released on June 19, 2018. Latest source code for 3.05 is available from [3.05 branch on GitHub](https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/tree/3.05). There is no development for this version, but it can be used for special cases (e.g. see [Regression of features from 3.0x](https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/wiki/Planning#regression-of-features-from-30x)).
 
 Source code for the new **[LSTM based 4.0 version](https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract)** is available from the master branch on GitHub. Please note this branch is under active development.
 
diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index 048bc5bc21..fcdb2e109f 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-4.0.0-rc4
+4.0.0
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index e075fcdb7d..282580664f 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([foreign subdir-objects])
 # Define date of package, etc. Could be useful in auto-generated
 # documentation.
 PACKAGE_YEAR=2018
-PACKAGE_DATE="03/12"
+PACKAGE_DATE="10/29"
 
 abs_top_srcdir=`AS_DIRNAME([$0])`