diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index 108a911e9e..bac9b15dbb 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 4.2
+ * Increment CQLSH to version 6.2.0 for release 4.2 (CASSANDRA-17646)
  * Adding support to perform certificate based internode authentication (CASSANDRA-17661)
  * Option to disable CDC writes of repaired data (CASSANDRA-17666)
  * When a node is bootstrapping it gets the whole gossip state but applies in random order causing some cases where StorageService will fail causing an instance to not show up in TokenMetadata (CASSANDRA-17676)
diff --git a/README.asc b/README.asc
index 3c40bf4970..942bb203b0 100644
--- a/README.asc
+++ b/README.asc
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ be sitting in front of a prompt:
 
 ----
 Connected to Test Cluster at localhost:9160.
-[cqlsh 6.0.0 | Cassandra 4.0.2 | CQL spec 3.4.5 | Native protocol v5]
+[cqlsh 6.2.0 | Cassandra 4.2-SNAPSHOT | CQL spec 3.4.5 | Native protocol v5]
 Use HELP for help.
 cqlsh>
 ----
diff --git a/bin/cqlsh.py b/bin/cqlsh.py
index 35eb429aba..e47bc59518 100755
--- a/bin/cqlsh.py
+++ b/bin/cqlsh.py
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ if platform.python_implementation().startswith('Jython'):
 UTF8 = 'utf-8'
 
 description = "CQL Shell for Apache Cassandra"
-version = "6.1.0"
+version = "6.2.0"
 
 readline = None
 try: