diff --git a/docs/markdown/Release-notes-for-0.42.0.md b/docs/markdown/Release-notes-for-0.42.0.md
index 3ba84eb43e98..48d47ca1fdd6 100644
--- a/docs/markdown/Release-notes-for-0.42.0.md
+++ b/docs/markdown/Release-notes-for-0.42.0.md
@@ -1,9 +1,7 @@
 ---
 title: Release 0.42
-short-description: Release notes for 0.42 (preliminary)
-...
+short-description: Release notes for 0.42
 
-**Preliminary, 0.42.0 has not been released yet.**
 
 # New features
 
diff --git a/man/meson.1 b/man/meson.1
index 086f88bf8352..b45382887dc7 100644
--- a/man/meson.1
+++ b/man/meson.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.TH MESON "1" "June 2017" "meson 0.41.1" "User Commands"
+.TH MESON "1" "August 2017" "meson 0.42.0" "User Commands"
 .SH NAME
 meson - a high productivity build system
 .SH DESCRIPTION
diff --git a/man/mesonconf.1 b/man/mesonconf.1
index ff9dba1a62c8..ae28e356e48b 100644
--- a/man/mesonconf.1
+++ b/man/mesonconf.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.TH MESONCONF "1" "June 2017" "mesonconf 0.41.1" "User Commands"
+.TH MESONCONF "1" "August 2017" "mesonconf 0.42.0" "User Commands"
 .SH NAME
 mesonconf - a tool to configure Meson builds
 .SH DESCRIPTION
diff --git a/man/mesonintrospect.1 b/man/mesonintrospect.1
index 78727acbadb3..eae7b4a1dea6 100644
--- a/man/mesonintrospect.1
+++ b/man/mesonintrospect.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.TH MESONCONF "1" "June 2017" "mesonintrospect 0.41.1" "User Commands"
+.TH MESONCONF "1" "August 2017" "mesonintrospect 0.42.0" "User Commands"
 .SH NAME
 mesonintrospect - a tool to extract information about a Meson build
 .SH DESCRIPTION
diff --git a/man/mesontest.1 b/man/mesontest.1
index d806f193623c..ed676dcfef7c 100644
--- a/man/mesontest.1
+++ b/man/mesontest.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.TH MESON "1" "June 2017" "meson 0.41.1" "User Commands"
+.TH MESON "1" "August 2017" "meson 0.42.0" "User Commands"
 .SH NAME
 mesontest - test tool for the Meson build system
 .SH DESCRIPTION
diff --git a/man/wraptool.1 b/man/wraptool.1
index 94d79308d526..50546d5c5fb3 100644
--- a/man/wraptool.1
+++ b/man/wraptool.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.TH WRAPTOOL "1" "June 2017" "meson 0.41.1" "User Commands"
+.TH WRAPTOOL "1" "August 2017" "meson 0.42.0" "User Commands"
 .SH NAME
 wraptool - source dependency downloader
 .SH DESCRIPTION
diff --git a/mesonbuild/coredata.py b/mesonbuild/coredata.py
index d39270b96b14..a2b2eab7110c 100644
--- a/mesonbuild/coredata.py
+++ b/mesonbuild/coredata.py
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 from .mesonlib import default_libdir, default_libexecdir, default_prefix
 import ast
 
-version = '0.42.0.dev1'
+version = '0.42.0'
 backendlist = ['ninja', 'vs', 'vs2010', 'vs2015', 'vs2017', 'xcode']
 
 class UserOption: