towards 2.7 release candidate 1

diff --git a/Include/patchlevel.h b/Include/patchlevel.h
index 2d8ec4ac372ccb22d6c33feb93323933505d0175..a59f8d8a6aa442e36842dead973f86705342387d 100644 (file)
--- a/Include/patchlevel.h
+++ b/Include/patchlevel.h
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
 #define PY_RELEASE_SERIAL      2
 
 /* Version as a string */
-#define PY_VERSION             "2.7b2"
+#define PY_VERSION             "2.7b2+"
 /*--end constants--*/
 
 /* Subversion Revision number of this file (not of the repository) */

diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index e5351ffdc88abe1021c50a5de360ba8bf1eae540..8a471df473c6d34f511adb987ae3bdf782fa1362 100644 (file)
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -4,6 +4,18 @@ Python News
 
 (editors: check NEWS.help for information about editing NEWS using ReST.)
 
+What's New in Python Release Candidate 1?
+=========================================
+
+*Release date: XXXX-XX-XX*
+
+Core and Builtins
+-----------------
+
+Library
+-------
+
+
 What's New in Python 2.7 beta 2?
 ================================