diff --git a/RELEASE b/RELEASE
index b38887d..45b421a 100644
--- a/RELEASE
+++ b/RELEASE
@@ -1 +1 @@
-2024.06 ===> Thu Jun 27 23:57:25 UTC 2024
+2024.07 ===> Thu Jul 25 23:57:29 UTC 2024
diff --git a/etc/fetch_core.txt b/etc/fetch_core.txt
index 4f2ea94..62ba73c 100644
--- a/etc/fetch_core.txt
+++ b/etc/fetch_core.txt
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 # These are the version numbers of the core components of Rakudo Star. Change
 # these if you want to create a distribution containing different core
 # component versions.
-moarvm_version=2024.06
-nqp_version=2024.06
-rakudo_version=2024.06
+moarvm_version=2024.07
+nqp_version=2024.07
+rakudo_version=2024.07
 
 # These are the URLs to fetch the sources from. You can use %s in the URLs as a
 # placeholder for the version number, specified above.