diff --git a/RELEASE.md b/RELEASE.md
index 266e6802de..ae0c8a3117 100644
--- a/RELEASE.md
+++ b/RELEASE.md
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-OQS-BoringSSL snapshot 2021-12-rc1
-==================================
+OQS-BoringSSL snapshot 2022-01
+==============================
 
 About
 -----
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ The **Open Quantum Safe (OQS) project** has the goal of developing and prototypi
 Release notes
 =============
 
-This is release candidate 1 for the 2021-12 snapshot release of OQS-BoringSSL, released on December 16, 2021. This release is intended to be used with liboqs version 0.7.1.
+This is the 2022-01 snapshot release of OQS-BoringSSL, released on January 6, 2022. This release is intended to be used with liboqs version 0.7.1.
 
 What's New
 ----------
@@ -45,4 +45,4 @@ Detailed changelog
 * adding ntru_hps40961229 by @baentsch in https://github.com/open-quantum-safe/boringssl/pull/79
 
 
-**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/open-quantum-safe/boringssl/compare/OQS-BoringSSL-snapshot-2021-08...OQS-BoringSSL-snapshot-2021-12-rc1
+**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/open-quantum-safe/boringssl/compare/OQS-BoringSSL-snapshot-2021-08...OQS-BoringSSL-snapshot-2022-01
diff --git a/include/openssl/crypto.h b/include/openssl/crypto.h
index f1bda67fdd..8b654c2ef4 100644
--- a/include/openssl/crypto.h
+++ b/include/openssl/crypto.h
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ OPENSSL_EXPORT size_t FIPS_read_counter(enum fips_counter_t counter);
 // OPENSSL_VERSION_TEXT contains a string the identifies the version of
 // “OpenSSL”. node.js requires a version number in this text.
 
-#define OPENSSL_VERSION_TEXT "OpenSSL 1.1.1 (compatible; BoringSSL; OQS dev 2021-12-rc1)"
+#define OPENSSL_VERSION_TEXT "OpenSSL 1.1.1 (compatible; BoringSSL; OQS 2022-01)"
 
 #define OPENSSL_VERSION 0
 #define OPENSSL_CFLAGS 1