diff --git a/RELEASE b/RELEASE
index a7f7c12..68b77ca 100644
--- a/RELEASE
+++ b/RELEASE
@@ -1 +1 @@
-2023.05 ===> Thu Jun 1 23:57:14 UTC 2023
+2023.06 ===> Mon Jun 26 23:57:17 UTC 2023
diff --git a/etc/fetch_core.txt b/etc/fetch_core.txt
index 2f10140..e0aa049 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=2023.05
-nqp_version=2023.05
-rakudo_version=2023.05
+moarvm_version=2023.06
+nqp_version=2023.06
+rakudo_version=2023.06
 
 # 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.