diff --git a/doc/changelog.rst b/doc/changelog.rst
index 04622947f..bb92bd320 100644
--- a/doc/changelog.rst
+++ b/doc/changelog.rst
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 Changelog
 =========
 
-Changes in Next Version
------------------------
+Changes in Version 3.6.0
+------------------------
 
 This version drops support for MongoDB versions older than 2.6. If connecting to
 a MongoDB 2.4 server or older, PyMongo now throws a
diff --git a/doc/installation.rst b/doc/installation.rst
index ffd77b450..60e4d7f5a 100644
--- a/doc/installation.rst
+++ b/doc/installation.rst
@@ -216,7 +216,7 @@ PyMongo source directory::
   $ python setup.py bdist_egg
 
 The egg package can be found in the dist/ subdirectory. The file name will
-resemble “pymongo-3.4-py2.7-linux-x86_64.egg” but may have a different name
+resemble “pymongo-3.6-py2.7-linux-x86_64.egg” but may have a different name
 depending on your platform and the version of python you use to compile.
 
 .. warning::
@@ -229,7 +229,7 @@ depending on your platform and the version of python you use to compile.
 Copy this file to the target system and issue the following command to install the
 package::
 
-  $ sudo python -m easy_install pymongo-3.4-py2.7-linux-x86_64.egg
+  $ sudo python -m easy_install pymongo-3.6-py2.7-linux-x86_64.egg
 
 Installing a beta or release candidate
 --------------------------------------
@@ -240,8 +240,8 @@ but can be found on the
 `github tags page <https://github.com/mongodb/mongo-python-driver/tags>`_.
 They can be installed by passing the full URL for the tag to pip::
 
-  $ python -m pip install https://github.com/mongodb/mongo-python-driver/archive/3.4rc0.tar.gz
+  $ python -m pip install https://github.com/mongodb/mongo-python-driver/archive/3.6rc0.tar.gz
 
 or easy_install::
 
-  $ python -m easy_install https://github.com/mongodb/mongo-python-driver/archive/3.4rc0.tar.gz
+  $ python -m easy_install https://github.com/mongodb/mongo-python-driver/archive/3.6rc0.tar.gz
diff --git a/pymongo/__init__.py b/pymongo/__init__.py
index ab96c09e9..ac0adfbfe 100644
--- a/pymongo/__init__.py
+++ b/pymongo/__init__.py
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ SLOW_ONLY = 1
 ALL = 2
 """Profile all operations."""
 
-version_tuple = (3, 6, 0, '.dev0')
+version_tuple = (3, 6, 'rc0')
 
 def get_version_string():
     if isinstance(version_tuple[-1], str):
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index ba96a6556..41cef7678 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ try:
 except ImportError:
     _HAVE_SPHINX = False
 
-version = "3.6.0.dev0"
+version = "3.6rc0"
 
 f = open("README.rst")
 try: