diff --git a/ANNOUNCE-4.1-rc1 b/ANNOUNCE-4.1
similarity index 76%
rename from ANNOUNCE-4.1-rc1
rename to ANNOUNCE-4.1
index 54e2beb..a273b9a 100644
--- a/ANNOUNCE-4.1-rc1
+++ b/ANNOUNCE-4.1
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ and via git at
    http://git.kernel.org/cgit/utils/mdadm/
 
 The update constitutes more than one year of enhancements and bug fixes
-including for IMSM RAID, Partial Parity Log, and clustered RAID support. 
+including for IMSM RAID, Partial Parity Log, clustered RAID support,
+improved testing, and gcc-8 support.
 
-Jes Sorensen, 2018-xx-xx
+Jes Sorensen, 2018-10-01
diff --git a/ANNOUNCE-4.1-rc2 b/ANNOUNCE-4.1-rc2
deleted file mode 100644
index 07dfea0..0000000
--- a/ANNOUNCE-4.1-rc2
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
-Subject: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 4.1 - A tool for managing md Soft RAID under Linux
-
-I am pleased to announce the availability of
-   mdadm version 4.1
-
-It is available at the usual places:
-   http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/raid/mdadm/
-and via git at
-   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/mdadm/mdadm.git
-   http://git.kernel.org/cgit/utils/mdadm/
-
-The update constitutes more than one year of enhancements and bug fixes
-including for IMSM RAID, Partial Parity Log, and clustered RAID support.
-
-Jes Sorensen, 2018-xx-xx
diff --git a/ReadMe.c b/ReadMe.c
index 6a038f9..12ccf83 100644
--- a/ReadMe.c
+++ b/ReadMe.c
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
 #include "mdadm.h"
 
 #ifndef VERSION
-#define VERSION "4.1-rc2"
+#define VERSION "4.1"
 #endif
 #ifndef VERS_DATE
-#define VERS_DATE "2018-08-02"
+#define VERS_DATE "2018-10-01"
 #endif
 char Version[] = "mdadm - v" VERSION " - " VERS_DATE "\n";
 
diff --git a/inventory b/inventory
index 7b241a6..8d9c104 100755
--- a/inventory
+++ b/inventory
@@ -24,8 +24,7 @@ ANNOUNCE-3.3.3
 ANNOUNCE-3.3.4
 ANNOUNCE-3.4
 ANNOUNCE-4.0
-ANNOUNCE-4.1-rc1
-ANNOUNCE-4.1-rc2
+ANNOUNCE-4.1
 Assemble.c
 Build.c
 COPYING
diff --git a/mdadm.spec b/mdadm.spec
index bdf4482..1c66894 100644
--- a/mdadm.spec
+++ b/mdadm.spec
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Summary:     mdadm is used for controlling Linux md devices (aka RAID arrays)
 Name:        mdadm
-Version:     4.1_rc2
+Version:     4.1
 Release:     1
 Source:      http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/raid/mdadm/mdadm-%{version}.tar.gz
 URL:         http://neil.brown.name/blog/mdadm