diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index c6613be874e..b1dff832b81 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 PHP                                                                        NEWS
 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
+?? Aug 2006, PHP 5.2.0RC2
+
 24 Jul 2006, PHP 5.2.0RC1
 - Updated bundled MySQL client library to version 5.0.22 in the Windows
   distribution. (Edin)
diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index 207b724f1a0..9d9d0d45de1 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ AC_CONFIG_HEADER(main/php_config.h)
 MAJOR_VERSION=5
 MINOR_VERSION=2
 RELEASE_VERSION=0
-EXTRA_VERSION="RC1"
+EXTRA_VERSION="RC2-dev"
 VERSION="$MAJOR_VERSION.$MINOR_VERSION.$RELEASE_VERSION$EXTRA_VERSION"
 
 dnl Define where extension directories are located in the configure context
diff --git a/main/php_version.h b/main/php_version.h
index 63400b649be..f1d078a3d54 100644
--- a/main/php_version.h
+++ b/main/php_version.h
@@ -3,5 +3,5 @@
 #define PHP_MAJOR_VERSION 5
 #define PHP_MINOR_VERSION 2
 #define PHP_RELEASE_VERSION 0
-#define PHP_EXTRA_VERSION "RC1"
-#define PHP_VERSION "5.2.0RC1"
+#define PHP_EXTRA_VERSION "RC2-dev"
+#define PHP_VERSION "5.2.0RC2-dev"