diff --git a/COPYING b/COPYING
index b1b27263..c8cfa742 100644
--- a/COPYING
+++ b/COPYING
@@ -7,8 +7,8 @@ Some parts of the source are 3rd party code which uses MIT license.
 The description and requirements of the license are available in
 later part of this file.
 
-Copyright (c) 2015-2017 Intel Corporation.  All rights reserved.
-Copyright (c) 2016-2017 Cisco Systems, Inc.  All rights reserved.
+Copyright (c) 2015-2018 Intel Corporation.  All rights reserved.
+Copyright (c) 2016-2018 Cisco Systems, Inc.  All rights reserved.
 
 ==================================================================
 
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 43859d42..dd99086f 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ dnl
 dnl Process this file with autoconf to produce a configure script.
 
 AC_PREREQ(2.57)
-AC_INIT([fabtests], [1.5.4a1], [ofiwg@lists.openfabrics.org])
+AC_INIT([fabtests], [1.5.4], [ofiwg@lists.openfabrics.org])
 AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR(config)
 AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR(config)
 AC_CONFIG_HEADERS(config.h)