diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
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-Mon Sep 20 2021 Łukasz Plewa <lukasz.plewa@intel.com>
+Fri Sep 24 2021 Łukasz Plewa <lukasz.plewa@intel.com>
 
-	* Version 1.9.3-rc2
+	* Version 1.9.3
 	This release fixes a missing sfence in non-temporal
 	version of memcpy function
 	(https://github.com/pmem/pmdk/issues/5292),
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-$Format:%h$
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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@@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ To build from source, clone this tree:
 
 For a stable version, checkout a [release tag](https://github.com/pmem/pmdk/releases) as follows. Otherwise skip this step to build the latest development release.
 ```
-	$ git checkout tags/1.9.2
+	$ git checkout tags/1.9.3
 ```
 
 Once the build system is setup, the Persistent Memory Development Kit is built using the `make` command at the top level:
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+1.9.3