diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 0a949e2eb..febd278bd 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Unlike the Git commit history, this changelog does not include code cleanups
 and other details that don't affect using Porcupine.
 
 
-## Unreleased
+## v2022.08.27
 
 The main feature in this release is Porcupine's new syntax highlighter. It is faster and less buggy than the old syntax highlighter. The old and new highlighters are also known as "pygments highlighter" (old) and "tree-sitter highlighter" (new), named after the libraries they are based on.
 
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index f1723fa38..53d1e114a 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ Open a terminal and run these commands:
     python3 -m pip install --user --upgrade pip wheel
     python3 -m venv porcupine-venv
     source porcupine-venv/bin/activate
-    python3 -m pip install https://github.com/Akuli/porcupine/archive/v2022.07.31.zip
+    python3 -m pip install https://github.com/Akuli/porcupine/archive/v2022.08.27.zip
     porcu
 
 If you want to leave Porcupine running and use the same terminal for something else,
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ Then run these commands:
     python3 -m pip install --user --upgrade pip wheel
     python3 -m venv porcupine-venv
     source porcupine-venv/bin/activate
-    python3 -m pip install https://github.com/Akuli/porcupine/archive/v2022.07.31.zip
+    python3 -m pip install https://github.com/Akuli/porcupine/archive/v2022.08.27.zip
     porcu
 
 If you want to leave Porcupine running and use the same terminal for something else,
@@ -260,7 +260,7 @@ Other people shouldn't need them.
     changing the changelog afterwards is difficult, as the text gets copied into the releases page.
 3. Merge the pull request and pull the merge commit to your local `master` branch.
 4. Run `python3 scripts/release.py` from the `master` branch.
-    The script pushes a tag named e.g. `v2022.07.31`,
+    The script pushes a tag named e.g. `v2022.08.27`,
     which triggers the parts of `.github/workflows/release-builds.yml`
     that have `if: startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/tags/v')` in them.
     They build and deploy docs, copy the changelog to the releases page, and so on.
diff --git a/porcupine/__init__.py b/porcupine/__init__.py
index 97646e785..a599d5b16 100644
--- a/porcupine/__init__.py
+++ b/porcupine/__init__.py
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 
 import appdirs
 
-version_info = (2022, 7, 31)  # this is updated with scripts/release.py
+version_info = (2022, 8, 27)  # this is updated with scripts/release.py
 __version__ = "%d.%02d.%02d" % version_info
 __author__ = "Akuli"
 __copyright__ = "Copyright (c) 2017-2022 Akuli"