diff --git a/META b/META
index 69ccd79da..6140db347 100644
--- a/META
+++ b/META
@@ -2,5 +2,5 @@ Meta:         1
 Name:         spl
 Branch:       1.0
 Version:      0.6.0
-Release:      rc7
+Release:      rc8
 Release-Tags: relext