1.6.9
diff --git a/downloads.php b/downloads.php
index 1758043..bf7dd05 100644
--- a/downloads.php
+++ b/downloads.php
@@ -158,13 +158,13 @@
   <h3 id="stable_release">Latest Stable Release</h3>
   <ul>
     <li>
-    <b>AspectJ 1.6.8, Released 8th January, 2010</b>
+    <b>AspectJ 1.6.9, Released 5th July, 2010</b>
  	<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%">
     <tr>
       <td><ul>AspectJ compiler, browser, documentation tool, Ant tasks, and documentation.</ul></td>
       <td width="30%" align="right">
-          <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/download.php?file=/tools/aspectj/aspectj-1.6.8.jar">aspectj-1.6.8.jar</a> (~12M)<br>
-          <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/download.php?file=/tools/aspectj/aspectj-1.6.8-src.jar">aspectj-1.6.8-src.jar</a>
+          <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/download.php?file=/tools/aspectj/aspectj-1.6.9.jar">aspectj-1.6.9.jar</a> (~12M)<br>
+          <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/download.php?file=/tools/aspectj/aspectj-1.6.9-src.jar">aspectj-1.6.9-src.jar</a>
       </td>
     </tr>
     </table>
@@ -177,13 +177,13 @@
   <h3 id="milestones">AspectJ 6</h3>
   <ul>
     <li>
-    <b>AspectJ 1.6.9.RC3, Released 30th June, 2010</b>
+    <b>AspectJ 1.6.9, Released 5th July, 2010</b>
     <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%">
     <tr>
       <td><ul>AspectJ compiler, browser, documentation tool, Ant tasks, and documentation.</ul></td>
       <td width="30%" align="right">
-          <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/download.php?file=/tools/aspectj/aspectj-1.6.9.RC3.jar">aspectj-1.6.9.RC3.jar</a> (~12M)<br>
-          <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/download.php?file=/tools/aspectj/aspectj-1.6.9.RC3-src.jar">aspectj-1.6.9.RC3-src.jar</a>
+          <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/download.php?file=/tools/aspectj/aspectj-1.6.9.jar">aspectj-1.6.9.jar</a> (~12M)<br>
+          <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/download.php?file=/tools/aspectj/aspectj-1.6.9-src.jar">aspectj-1.6.9-src.jar</a>
       </td>
     </tr>
     </table>
diff --git a/index.php b/index.php
index a293a9f..7fcec27 100644
--- a/index.php
+++ b/index.php
@@ -88,6 +88,12 @@
 			<h3>News and Events</h3>
    <ul>
    
+   <li>AspectJ 1.6.9 is now <a href="downloads.php">available for download</a>.
+   See the <a href="doc/released/README-169.html">readme</a>
+   for more information.
+   <br><div align="right"><span class="dates"><i>posted 5-Jul-10</i></span></div>
+   </li>
+   
    <li>AspectJ 1.6.9 release candidate 3 is now <a href="downloads.php">available for download</a>.
    Please try it out!  See the <a href="doc/released/README-169.html">readme</a>
    for more information.  This includes 1 bug fixes beyond RC2: