diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index edeacf350..3705a8634 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -376,7 +376,7 @@
     <!-- do not use snapshot suffix here -->
     <commons.release.version>3.6</commons.release.version>
     <commons.release.desc>(requires Java 1.5+)</commons.release.desc>
-    <commons.rc.version>RC1</commons.rc.version>
+    <commons.rc.version>RC2</commons.rc.version>
     <commons.binary.suffix>-bin</commons.binary.suffix>
 
     <commons.release.2.version>2.2</commons.release.2.version>
diff --git a/src/changes/changes.xml b/src/changes/changes.xml
index 90e8dc944..21ab68f4c 100644
--- a/src/changes/changes.xml
+++ b/src/changes/changes.xml
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ If the output is not quite correct, check for invisible trailing spaces!
     <title>Commons Math Release Notes</title>
   </properties>
   <body>
-    <release version="3.6" date="2016-01-04" description="
+    <release version="3.6" date="2016-01-05" description="
 This is a minor release: It combines bug fixes and new features.
  Changes to existing features were made in a backwards-compatible
  way such as to allow drop-in replacement of the v3.x JAR file.
