diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index 616a3875cd..35801bbc36 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-2.2.0-rc3
+2.2.0
  * Fix cqlsh copy methods and other windows specific issues (CASSANDRA-9795) 
  * Don't wrap byte arrays in SequentialWriter (CASSANDRA-9797)
  * sum() and avg() functions missing for smallint and tinyint types (CASSANDRA-9671)
diff --git a/build.xml b/build.xml
index ebde62a6aa..de57f042cd 100644
--- a/build.xml
+++ b/build.xml
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
     <property name="debuglevel" value="source,lines,vars"/>
 
     <!-- default version and SCM information -->
-    <property name="base.version" value="2.2.0-rc2"/>
+    <property name="base.version" value="2.2.0"/>
     <property name="scm.connection" value="scm:git://git.apache.org/cassandra.git"/>
     <property name="scm.developerConnection" value="scm:git://git.apache.org/cassandra.git"/>
     <property name="scm.url" value="http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=cassandra.git;a=tree"/>
diff --git a/debian/cassandra.install b/debian/cassandra.install
index a505e15a4d..6488dbe90a 100644
--- a/debian/cassandra.install
+++ b/debian/cassandra.install
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ bin/nodetool usr/bin
 bin/sstablekeys usr/bin
 bin/sstableloader usr/bin
 bin/cqlsh usr/bin
+bin/cqlsh.py usr/bin
 bin/sstablescrub usr/bin
 bin/sstableupgrade usr/bin
 tools/bin/cassandra-stress usr/bin
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 0940ea9355..ce89ff9f35 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,8 +1,14 @@
+cassandra (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  * New release
+
+ -- Jake Luciani <jake@apache.org>  Fri, 17 Jul 2015 13:06:22 -0400
+
 cassandra (2.2.0~rc2) unstable; urgency=medium
 
   * New RC release
 
- -- Jake Luciani <jake@jakebook>  Tue, 30 Jun 2015 09:43:38 -0400
+ -- Jake Luciani <jake@apache.org>  Tue, 30 Jun 2015 09:43:38 -0400
 
 cassandra (2.2.0~rc1) unstable; urgency=medium