diff --git a/INSTALL.md b/INSTALL.md
index e25e7a0..dbf55f9 100644
--- a/INSTALL.md
+++ b/INSTALL.md
@@ -20,12 +20,12 @@ To install Tomb simply download the source distribution (the tar.gz file)
 from https://files.dyne.org/tomb and decompress it. From a terminal:
 
     cd Downloads
-    tar xvfz Tomb-2.3.tar.gz (correct with actual file name)
+    tar xvfz Tomb-2.4.tar.gz (correct with actual file name)
 
 Then enter its directory and run 'make install' as root, this will install
 Tomb into /usr/local:
 
-    cd Tomb-2.3 (correct with actual directory name)
+    cd Tomb-2.4 (correct with actual directory name)
     sudo make install
 
 After installation one can read the commandline help or read the manual:
diff --git a/tomb b/tomb
index abb56f4..ce5a909 100755
--- a/tomb
+++ b/tomb
@@ -44,8 +44,8 @@
 
 # {{{ Global variables
 
-typeset VERSION="2.3"
-typeset DATE="Jan/2017"
+typeset VERSION="2.4"
+typeset DATE="Apr/2017"
 typeset TOMBEXEC=$0
 typeset TMPPREFIX=${TMPPREFIX:-/tmp}
 # TODO: configure which tmp dir to use from a cli flag