diff --git a/bigbluebutton-config/bigbluebutton-release b/bigbluebutton-config/bigbluebutton-release
index 7cffe9cd1328a9c238aca5a7f916bf92954a09a8..edaccb88189c945e313de58bee90771dfbf96a3a 100644
--- a/bigbluebutton-config/bigbluebutton-release
+++ b/bigbluebutton-config/bigbluebutton-release
@@ -1 +1 @@
-BIGBLUEBUTTON_RELEASE=1.0.0-beta
+BIGBLUEBUTTON_RELEASE=1.0.0-RC
diff --git a/bigbluebutton-config/web/index.html b/bigbluebutton-config/web/index.html
index 1c391b693201b03bce66882ee098d098602e1b73..ccbee654a95e6ee7409861ede01106c714547608 100644
--- a/bigbluebutton-config/web/index.html
+++ b/bigbluebutton-config/web/index.html
@@ -225,7 +225,7 @@
 	      <div class="row">
 	      	<div class="span twelve center">
 		        <p>Copyright &copy; 2016 BigBlueButton Inc.<br>
-		        <small>Version <a href="http://docs.bigbluebutton.org/">1.0-beta</a></small>		        
+		        <small>Version <a href="http://docs.bigbluebutton.org/">1.0-RC</a></small>		        
 		        </p>
 	      	</div>
 	      </div>	
diff --git a/bigbluebutton-web/grails-app/conf/bigbluebutton.properties b/bigbluebutton-web/grails-app/conf/bigbluebutton.properties
index 3e136ba27b91d722c59f52f841038c8998d39840..42e9e6ff7531fe2fc0390d90bcc7cb41317c1ed6 100755
--- a/bigbluebutton-web/grails-app/conf/bigbluebutton.properties
+++ b/bigbluebutton-web/grails-app/conf/bigbluebutton.properties
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ defaultDialAccessNumber=613-555-1234
 # conference. This is only used for the old scheduling which will be
 # removed in the future. Use the API to create a conference.
 defaultWelcomeMessage=<br>Welcome to <b>%%CONFNAME%%</b>!<br><br>For help on using BigBlueButton see these (short) <a href="event:http://www.bigbluebutton.org/content/videos"><u>tutorial videos</u></a>.<br><br>To join the audio bridge click the headset icon (upper-left hand corner).  Use a headset to avoid causing background noise for others.<br>
-defaultWelcomeMessageFooter=This server is running a build of <a href="https://code.google.com/p/bigbluebutton/wiki/090Overview" target="_blank"><u>BigBlueButton 0.9.0-beta</u></a>.
+defaultWelcomeMessageFooter=This server is running <a href="http://docs.bigbluebutton.org/" target="_blank"><u>BigBlueButton</u></a>.
 
 # Default maximum number of users a meeting can have.
 # Doesn't get enforced yet but is the default value when the create