6 files changed, 10 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/ANNOUNCE-4.2-rc1 b/ANNOUNCE-4.2-rc2
index e2813fa8..82a643da 100644
--- a/ANNOUNCE-4.2-rc1
+++ b/ANNOUNCE-4.2-rc2
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
-Subject: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 4.2-rc1 - A tool for managing md Soft RAID under Linux
+Subject: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 4.2-rc2 - A tool for managing md Soft RAID under Linux
 
-I am pleased to announce the availability of the first rc release of mdadm-4.2
+I am pleased to announce the availability of the second rc release of
+mdadm-4.2, hopefully the last before we cut final.
 
 It is available at the usual places:
    http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/raid/mdadm/
@@ -12,4 +13,4 @@ The update constitutes more than one year of enhancements and bug fixes
 including for IMSM RAID, Partial Parity Log, clustered RAID support,
 improved testing, and gcc-8 support.
 
-Jes Sorensen, 2021-04-14
+Jes Sorensen, 2021-08-02
diff --git a/ReadMe.c b/ReadMe.c
index 33a92d18..978796ac 100644
--- a/ReadMe.c
+++ b/ReadMe.c
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
 #include "mdadm.h"
 
 #ifndef VERSION
-#define VERSION "4.2-rc1"
+#define VERSION "4.2-rc2"
 #endif
 #ifndef VERS_DATE
-#define VERS_DATE "2021-04-14"
+#define VERS_DATE "2021-08-02"
 #endif
 #ifndef EXTRAVERSION
 #define EXTRAVERSION ""
diff --git a/inventory b/inventory
index fb4cf412..059eb549 100755
--- a/inventory
+++ b/inventory
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ ANNOUNCE-3.3.4
 ANNOUNCE-3.4
 ANNOUNCE-4.0
 ANNOUNCE-4.1
-ANNOUNCE-4.2-rc1
+ANNOUNCE-4.2-rc2
 Assemble.c
 Build.c
 COPYING
diff --git a/mdadm.8.in b/mdadm.8.in
index 8d7aad0c..96846035 100644
--- a/mdadm.8.in
+++ b/mdadm.8.in
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 .\"   the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
 .\"   (at your option) any later version.
 .\" See file COPYING in distribution for details.
-.TH MDADM 8 "" v4.2-rc1
+.TH MDADM 8 "" v4.2-rc2
 .SH NAME
 mdadm \- manage MD devices
 .I aka
diff --git a/mdadm.spec b/mdadm.spec
index 0db5c43e..988c1ca1 100644
--- a/mdadm.spec
+++ b/mdadm.spec
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Summary:     mdadm is used for controlling Linux md devices (aka RAID arrays)
 Name:        mdadm
-Version:     4.2_rc1
+Version:     4.2_rc2
 Release:     1
 Source:      https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/raid/mdadm/mdadm-%{version}.tar.gz
 URL:         https://neil.brown.name/blog/mdadm
diff --git a/mdmon.8 b/mdmon.8
index 3b5acc29..48b14a17 100644
--- a/mdmon.8
+++ b/mdmon.8
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 .\" See file COPYING in distribution for details.
-.TH MDMON 8 "" v4.2-rc1
+.TH MDMON 8 "" v4.2-rc2
 .SH NAME
 mdmon \- monitor MD external metadata arrays