diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index ec3389e7..846c51e3 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-## 0.21.0-rc.0 / 2022-05-10
+## 0.21.0 / 2022-05-30
 
 This Prometheus release is built with go1.18, which contains two noticeable
 changes related to TLS and HTTP:
diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index 60e5ebac..88541566 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-0.21.0-rc.0
+0.21.0