diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 2dcba85..4b89d19 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 NEWS for Pam_p11 -- History of user visible changes
 
-New in 0.1.6; ????-??-??; Andreas Jellinghaus
+New in 0.1.6; 2017-03-06 Alon Bar-Lev
 * Build system rewritten (NOTICE: configure options was modified). 
 
 New in 0.1.5; 2008-08-27; Andreas Jellinghaus
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 9d392c9..5149f10 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ AC_PREREQ(2.60)
 define([PACKAGE_VERSION_MAJOR], [0])
 define([PACKAGE_VERSION_MINOR], [1])
 define([PACKAGE_VERSION_FIX], [6])
-define([PACKAGE_SUFFIX], [_git])
+define([PACKAGE_SUFFIX], [])
 
 AC_INIT([pam_p11],[PACKAGE_VERSION_MAJOR.PACKAGE_VERSION_MINOR.PACKAGE_VERSION_FIX[]PACKAGE_SUFFIX])
 AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR([.])