diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 0f69c0756..f2a793e20 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -42,11 +42,11 @@ This project has been published to the Maven Central Repository.
 For SBT to download the connector binaries, sources and javadoc, put this in your project 
 SBT config:
                                                                                                                            
-    libraryDependencies += "com.datastax.spark" %% "spark-cassandra-connector" % "1.4.0-RC1"
+    libraryDependencies += "com.datastax.spark" %% "spark-cassandra-connector" % "1.4.0"
 
 If you want to access the functionality of Connector from Java, you may want to add also a Java API module:
 
-    libraryDependencies += "com.datastax.spark" %% "spark-cassandra-connector-java" % "1.4.0-RC1"
+    libraryDependencies += "com.datastax.spark" %% "spark-cassandra-connector-java" % "1.4.0"
 
 ## Building
 See [Building And Artifacts](doc/12_building_and_artifacts.md)
diff --git a/project/Settings.scala b/project/Settings.scala
index 88bf1192f..22cc63696 100644
--- a/project/Settings.scala
+++ b/project/Settings.scala
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ object Settings extends Build {
 
   lazy val buildSettings = Seq(
     organization         := "com.datastax.spark",
-    version in ThisBuild := s"1.4.0-RC1$versionSuffix",
+    version in ThisBuild := s"1.4.0$versionSuffix",
     scalaVersion         := Versions.scalaVersion,
     crossScalaVersions   := Versions.crossScala,
     crossVersion         := CrossVersion.binary,