diff --git a/.zenodo.json b/.zenodo.json
index 09922b7823a..78bbba46ad2 100644
--- a/.zenodo.json
+++ b/.zenodo.json
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 {
     "description": "Mirror of the Sage https://sagemath.org/ source tree", 
     "license": "other-open", 
-    "title": "sagemath/sage: 9.4.rc2", 
-    "version": "9.4.rc2", 
+    "title": "sagemath/sage: 9.4", 
+    "version": "9.4", 
     "upload_type": "software", 
-    "publication_date": "2021-08-12", 
+    "publication_date": "2021-08-22", 
     "creators": [
         {
             "affiliation": "SageMath.org", 
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
     "related_identifiers": [
         {
             "scheme": "url", 
-            "identifier": "https://github.com/sagemath/sage/tree/9.4.rc2", 
+            "identifier": "https://github.com/sagemath/sage/tree/9.4", 
             "relation": "isSupplementTo"
         }, 
         {
diff --git a/VERSION.txt b/VERSION.txt
index 86f2f3ee0ac..d1fbd489008 100644
--- a/VERSION.txt
+++ b/VERSION.txt
@@ -1 +1 @@
-SageMath version 9.4.rc2, Release Date: 2021-08-12
+SageMath version 9.4, Release Date: 2021-08-22
diff --git a/build/pkgs/configure/checksums.ini b/build/pkgs/configure/checksums.ini
index 912600b9fd1..6445bab3597 100644
--- a/build/pkgs/configure/checksums.ini
+++ b/build/pkgs/configure/checksums.ini
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 tarball=configure-VERSION.tar.gz
-sha1=e8f46f84c091307a9ae09cc7ffa38d012cc20ea0
-md5=8040113ec761f1fa5754e0b44d8b309e
-cksum=1873580034
+sha1=d8c58a2ffaec92099d4a7295f5beeb12aefa3385
+md5=0009324af93933b11cb35e739a2582c8
+cksum=2050549271
diff --git a/build/pkgs/configure/package-version.txt b/build/pkgs/configure/package-version.txt
index dabc369a7b4..07c49604ab0 100644
--- a/build/pkgs/configure/package-version.txt
+++ b/build/pkgs/configure/package-version.txt
@@ -1 +1 @@
-79dc8f55f8ca208a226e5c970b3e6a0e9bc2120a
+7282b2b6c6a282a887fa05b0b5250b77035bf3bf
diff --git a/build/pkgs/sagelib/package-version.txt b/build/pkgs/sagelib/package-version.txt
index 6a2cf68b85b..0359f243283 100644
--- a/build/pkgs/sagelib/package-version.txt
+++ b/build/pkgs/sagelib/package-version.txt
@@ -1 +1 @@
-9.4.rc2
+9.4
diff --git a/src/VERSION.txt b/src/VERSION.txt
index 6a2cf68b85b..0359f243283 100644
--- a/src/VERSION.txt
+++ b/src/VERSION.txt
@@ -1 +1 @@
-9.4.rc2
+9.4
diff --git a/src/bin/sage-version.sh b/src/bin/sage-version.sh
index 4fec7e5b50e..65c5fecae89 100644
--- a/src/bin/sage-version.sh
+++ b/src/bin/sage-version.sh
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # Sage version information for shell scripts
 # This file is auto-generated by the sage-update-version script, do not edit!
-SAGE_VERSION='9.4.rc2'
-SAGE_RELEASE_DATE='2021-08-12'
-SAGE_VERSION_BANNER='SageMath version 9.4.rc2, Release Date: 2021-08-12'
+SAGE_VERSION='9.4'
+SAGE_RELEASE_DATE='2021-08-22'
+SAGE_VERSION_BANNER='SageMath version 9.4, Release Date: 2021-08-22'
diff --git a/src/sage/version.py b/src/sage/version.py
index 17329893d01..9e3bfe7fdbd 100644
--- a/src/sage/version.py
+++ b/src/sage/version.py
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # Sage version information for Python scripts
 # This file is auto-generated by the sage-update-version script, do not edit!
-version = '9.4.rc2'
-date = '2021-08-12'
-banner = 'SageMath version 9.4.rc2, Release Date: 2021-08-12'
+version = '9.4'
+date = '2021-08-22'
+banner = 'SageMath version 9.4, Release Date: 2021-08-22'