diff --git a/.zenodo.json b/.zenodo.json
index f429eaa0ed8..17091f3b7d2 100644
--- a/.zenodo.json
+++ b/.zenodo.json
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 {
     "description": "Mirror of the Sage https://sagemath.org/ source tree", 
     "license": "other-open", 
-    "title": "sagemath/sage: 9.6.beta6", 
-    "version": "9.6.beta6", 
+    "title": "sagemath/sage: 9.6.beta7", 
+    "version": "9.6.beta7", 
     "upload_type": "software", 
-    "publication_date": "2022-03-27", 
+    "publication_date": "2022-04-02", 
     "creators": [
         {
             "affiliation": "SageMath.org", 
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
     "related_identifiers": [
         {
             "scheme": "url", 
-            "identifier": "https://github.com/sagemath/sage/tree/9.6.beta6", 
+            "identifier": "https://github.com/sagemath/sage/tree/9.6.beta7", 
             "relation": "isSupplementTo"
         }, 
         {
diff --git a/VERSION.txt b/VERSION.txt
index 9c5e7a59fb8..eee0523d375 100644
--- a/VERSION.txt
+++ b/VERSION.txt
@@ -1 +1 @@
-SageMath version 9.6.beta6, Release Date: 2022-03-27
+SageMath version 9.6.beta7, Release Date: 2022-04-02
diff --git a/build/pkgs/configure/checksums.ini b/build/pkgs/configure/checksums.ini
index 73a9bf26cc7..4f4217c75f1 100644
--- a/build/pkgs/configure/checksums.ini
+++ b/build/pkgs/configure/checksums.ini
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 tarball=configure-VERSION.tar.gz
-sha1=8d686c033d3c8f745d0a6727c851f1293b9215a0
-md5=0909bbf96d514f3624c49247f2e39ac8
-cksum=1726119293
+sha1=4f7f6e9e49e702f7a00ea446aa6145c81f430de8
+md5=b90d3aac0d34dcade19ea0879a94d8d1
+cksum=1127886742
diff --git a/build/pkgs/configure/package-version.txt b/build/pkgs/configure/package-version.txt
index 01ee9909e26..82e9fbc071f 100644
--- a/build/pkgs/configure/package-version.txt
+++ b/build/pkgs/configure/package-version.txt
@@ -1 +1 @@
-d4f178fe1d70db93e9fe390905dc8f2ccc9b326c
+199ee74bddecaf754d0e0bd9c26d128ebe2bf78e
diff --git a/build/pkgs/sagelib/package-version.txt b/build/pkgs/sagelib/package-version.txt
index 8acc77f3408..ea1b3ea923d 100644
--- a/build/pkgs/sagelib/package-version.txt
+++ b/build/pkgs/sagelib/package-version.txt
@@ -1 +1 @@
-9.6.beta6
+9.6.beta7
diff --git a/src/VERSION.txt b/src/VERSION.txt
index 8acc77f3408..ea1b3ea923d 100644
--- a/src/VERSION.txt
+++ b/src/VERSION.txt
@@ -1 +1 @@
-9.6.beta6
+9.6.beta7
diff --git a/src/bin/sage-version.sh b/src/bin/sage-version.sh
index 2af2936f7c9..39620d7372d 100644
--- a/src/bin/sage-version.sh
+++ b/src/bin/sage-version.sh
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # Sage version information for shell scripts
 # This file is auto-generated by the sage-update-version script, do not edit!
-SAGE_VERSION='9.6.beta6'
-SAGE_RELEASE_DATE='2022-03-27'
-SAGE_VERSION_BANNER='SageMath version 9.6.beta6, Release Date: 2022-03-27'
+SAGE_VERSION='9.6.beta7'
+SAGE_RELEASE_DATE='2022-04-02'
+SAGE_VERSION_BANNER='SageMath version 9.6.beta7, Release Date: 2022-04-02'
diff --git a/src/sage/version.py b/src/sage/version.py
index bcc6f9e2704..e959aeb45e7 100644
--- a/src/sage/version.py
+++ b/src/sage/version.py
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # Sage version information for Python scripts
 # This file is auto-generated by the sage-update-version script, do not edit!
-version = '9.6.beta6'
-date = '2022-03-27'
-banner = 'SageMath version 9.6.beta6, Release Date: 2022-03-27'
+version = '9.6.beta7'
+date = '2022-04-02'
+banner = 'SageMath version 9.6.beta7, Release Date: 2022-04-02'