diff --git a/packages/ddp-client/package.js b/packages/ddp-client/package.js
index 93f5de6052..0cdc77a953 100644
--- a/packages/ddp-client/package.js
+++ b/packages/ddp-client/package.js
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Package.describe({
   summary: "Meteor's latency-compensated distributed data client",
-  version: '2.6.0-rc280.0',
+  version: '2.6.0',
   documentation: null
 });
 
diff --git a/packages/ddp-server/package.js b/packages/ddp-server/package.js
index 4a70ae18a7..da413690b0 100644
--- a/packages/ddp-server/package.js
+++ b/packages/ddp-server/package.js
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Package.describe({
   summary: "Meteor's latency-compensated distributed data server",
-  version: '2.6.0-rc280.0',
+  version: '2.6.0',
   documentation: null
 });
 
diff --git a/packages/meteor-tool/package.js b/packages/meteor-tool/package.js
index 2607911613..374140976c 100644
--- a/packages/meteor-tool/package.js
+++ b/packages/meteor-tool/package.js
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Package.describe({
   summary: 'The Meteor command-line tool',
-  version: '2.8.0-rc.0',
+  version: '2.8.0',
 });
 
 Package.includeTool();
diff --git a/packages/meteor/package.js b/packages/meteor/package.js
index 2224fb5caa..98e5453a3c 100644
--- a/packages/meteor/package.js
+++ b/packages/meteor/package.js
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 Package.describe({
   summary: "Core Meteor environment",
-  version: '1.10.1-rc280.0'
+  version: '1.10.1'
 });
 
 Package.registerBuildPlugin({
diff --git a/packages/minimongo/package.js b/packages/minimongo/package.js
index 61bd3b9b05..3b8e47fb2f 100644
--- a/packages/minimongo/package.js
+++ b/packages/minimongo/package.js
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Package.describe({
   summary: "Meteor's client-side datastore: a port of MongoDB to Javascript",
-  version: '1.9.0-rc280.0'
+  version: '1.9.0'
 });
 
 Package.onUse(api => {
diff --git a/packages/modules/package.js b/packages/modules/package.js
index ddebe4e805..41e52aedbb 100644
--- a/packages/modules/package.js
+++ b/packages/modules/package.js
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Package.describe({
   name: "modules",
-  version: "0.19.0-rc280.0",
+  version: "0.19.0",
   summary: "CommonJS module system",
   documentation: "README.md"
 });
diff --git a/packages/mongo/package.js b/packages/mongo/package.js
index 05f7d833f8..628baf804b 100644
--- a/packages/mongo/package.js
+++ b/packages/mongo/package.js
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 
 Package.describe({
   summary: "Adaptor for using MongoDB and Minimongo over DDP",
-  version: '1.16.0-rc280.0'
+  version: '1.16.0'
 });
 
 Npm.depends({
diff --git a/packages/npm-mongo/package.js b/packages/npm-mongo/package.js
index a63486965d..b8519fa86a 100644
--- a/packages/npm-mongo/package.js
+++ b/packages/npm-mongo/package.js
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 
 Package.describe({
   summary: "Wrapper around the mongo npm package",
-  version: "4.9.0-rc280.0",
+  version: "4.9.0",
   documentation: null
 });
 
diff --git a/packages/test-in-console/package.js b/packages/test-in-console/package.js
index c4759ae33f..9c35fa72cc 100644
--- a/packages/test-in-console/package.js
+++ b/packages/test-in-console/package.js
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Package.describe({
   summary: 'Run tests noninteractively, with results going to the console.',
-  version: '1.2.4-rc280.0'
+  version: '1.2.4'
 });
 
 Package.onUse(function(api) {
diff --git a/scripts/admin/meteor-release-official.json b/scripts/admin/meteor-release-official.json
index 9dc8a0dcfd..41230791aa 100644
--- a/scripts/admin/meteor-release-official.json
+++ b/scripts/admin/meteor-release-official.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "track": "METEOR",
-  "version": "2.7.3",
+  "version": "2.8.0",
   "recommended": false,
   "official": true,
   "description": "The Official Meteor Distribution"