diff --git a/VERSION.txt b/VERSION.txt
index f3131428efd..963a7a330c1 100644
--- a/VERSION.txt
+++ b/VERSION.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,18 @@
-jetty-7.6.0-SNAPSHOT
+jetty-7.6.0.RC5 - 20 January 2012
+ + 359329 Prevent reinvocation of LoginModule.login with jaspi for already
+   authed user
+ + 368632 Remove superfluous removal of org.apache.catalina.jsp_file
+ + 368633 fixed configure.dtd resource mappings
+ + 368635 moved lifecycle state reporting from toString to dump
+ + 368773 process data constraints without realm
+ + 368787 always set token view to new header buffers in httpparser
+ + 368821 improved test harness
+ + 368920 JettyAwareLogger always formats the arguments.
+ + 368948 POM for jetty-jndi references unknown version for javax.activation.
+ + 368992 avoid non-blocking flush when writing to avoid setting !_writable
+   without _writeblocked
+ + JETTY-1475 made output state fields volatile to provide memory barrier for
+   non dispatched thread IO
 
 jetty-7.6.0.RC4 - 13 January 2012
  + 365048 jetty Http client does not send proxy authentication when requesting