diff --git a/.zenodo.json b/.zenodo.json
index d0132ce162d..618a0985132 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: 9.4.beta5", 
-    "version": "9.4.beta5", 
+    "title": "sagemath/sage: 9.4.beta6", 
+    "version": "9.4.beta6", 
     "upload_type": "software", 
-    "publication_date": "2021-07-18", 
+    "publication_date": "2021-07-24", 
     "creators": [
         {
             "affiliation": "SageMath.org", 
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
     "related_identifiers": [
         {
             "scheme": "url", 
-            "identifier": "https://github.com/sagemath/sage/tree/9.4.beta5", 
+            "identifier": "https://github.com/sagemath/sage/tree/9.4.beta6", 
             "relation": "isSupplementTo"
         }, 
         {
diff --git a/VERSION.txt b/VERSION.txt
index 9aeb663dea5..ba6c89c9a88 100644
--- a/VERSION.txt
+++ b/VERSION.txt
@@ -1 +1 @@
-SageMath version 9.4.beta5, Release Date: 2021-07-18
+SageMath version 9.4.beta6, Release Date: 2021-07-24
diff --git a/build/pkgs/configure/checksums.ini b/build/pkgs/configure/checksums.ini
index 738066670a5..3bb9983d8ea 100644
--- a/build/pkgs/configure/checksums.ini
+++ b/build/pkgs/configure/checksums.ini
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 tarball=configure-VERSION.tar.gz
-sha1=694ed11a1e402aa7714737ea571ca38845fe425b
-md5=35e45f13544608d4e981acee1065ce88
-cksum=98651158
+sha1=c55867da552d5ed30328a35a480dc1ab14ec232c
+md5=5cbace690cae40b89993e3a71fe4200c
+cksum=912186647
diff --git a/build/pkgs/configure/package-version.txt b/build/pkgs/configure/package-version.txt
index 98aac3a7ccd..3e74f1098db 100644
--- a/build/pkgs/configure/package-version.txt
+++ b/build/pkgs/configure/package-version.txt
@@ -1 +1 @@
-47955602029e3ee3ac6477115cbc5d5e72956ee6
+25ff4f4daf3cd93053f7b8c1e39117ce67e96b6c
diff --git a/build/pkgs/sagelib/package-version.txt b/build/pkgs/sagelib/package-version.txt
index 0439ed38bee..2b12acd816c 100644
--- a/build/pkgs/sagelib/package-version.txt
+++ b/build/pkgs/sagelib/package-version.txt
@@ -1 +1 @@
-9.4.beta5
+9.4.beta6
diff --git a/src/VERSION.txt b/src/VERSION.txt
index 0439ed38bee..2b12acd816c 100644
--- a/src/VERSION.txt
+++ b/src/VERSION.txt
@@ -1 +1 @@
-9.4.beta5
+9.4.beta6
diff --git a/src/bin/sage-version.sh b/src/bin/sage-version.sh
index 4595e6aee5d..901e9d7e877 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='9.4.beta5'
-SAGE_RELEASE_DATE='2021-07-18'
-SAGE_VERSION_BANNER='SageMath version 9.4.beta5, Release Date: 2021-07-18'
+SAGE_VERSION='9.4.beta6'
+SAGE_RELEASE_DATE='2021-07-24'
+SAGE_VERSION_BANNER='SageMath version 9.4.beta6, Release Date: 2021-07-24'
diff --git a/src/sage/version.py b/src/sage/version.py
index b97a07ff370..be6e001eed6 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 = '9.4.beta5'
-date = '2021-07-18'
-banner = 'SageMath version 9.4.beta5, Release Date: 2021-07-18'
+version = '9.4.beta6'
+date = '2021-07-24'
+banner = 'SageMath version 9.4.beta6, Release Date: 2021-07-24'