diff --git a/META b/META
index d9f9e09122..ba74350580 100644
--- a/META
+++ b/META
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Meta:         1
 Name:         zfs
 Branch:       1.0
 Version:      0.6.0
-Release:      1
+Release:      rc1
 Release-Tags: relext
 License:      CDDL
 Author:       Sun Microsystems/Oracle, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory