diff --git a/META b/META
index 6140db347f..0b27b70586 100644
--- a/META
+++ b/META
@@ -2,5 +2,5 @@ Meta:         1
 Name:         spl
 Branch:       1.0
 Version:      0.6.0
-Release:      rc8
+Release:      rc9
 Release-Tags: relext