post-release updates

diff --git a/Include/patchlevel.h b/Include/patchlevel.h
index ab660895ceda250b81094113d1a6dc6f941b6aca..f42abe4bc5448dbe335f110ce827e38017846653 100644 (file)
--- a/Include/patchlevel.h
+++ b/Include/patchlevel.h
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 #define PY_RELEASE_SERIAL      1
 
 /* Version as a string */
-#define PY_VERSION             "3.1rc1"
+#define PY_VERSION             "3.1rc1+"
 /*--end constants--*/
 
 /* Subversion Revision number of this file (not of the repository) */

diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 25afa814c4310830a6c36e5eba8a30b5d109acf0..706fb56d8ef0757cbc9267c1536ccdf3c3d91176 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 2?
+=========================================
+
+*Release date: 17-June-2009*
+
+Core and Builtins
+-----------------
+
+Library
+-------
+
+
 What's New in Python 3.1 release candidate 1?
 =============================================