Use "2.1c1" since that is what Guido used for the Python version number.

diff --git a/Doc/Makefile b/Doc/Makefile
index a2da3021aca4943830396aee42ad84e449a2a622..b8cc71227b3b2740fa591d53295be7dd4d419d40 100644 (file)
--- a/Doc/Makefile
+++ b/Doc/Makefile
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ TOOLSDIR=     tools
 
 # This is the *documentation* release, and is used to construct the file
 # names of the downloadable tarballs.
-RELEASE=2.1rc1
+RELEASE=2.1c1
 
 PYTHON=           python
 DVIPS=    dvips -N0 -t $(PAPER)

diff --git a/Doc/texinputs/boilerplate.tex b/Doc/texinputs/boilerplate.tex
index 87c301fd48197457b602d571074a0b554056d7cd..74c0f22a9cf176f23aef5f678427ef7df09fef64 100644 (file)
--- a/Doc/texinputs/boilerplate.tex
+++ b/Doc/texinputs/boilerplate.tex
@@ -6,5 +6,5 @@
 }
 
 \date{\today}                  % XXX update before release!
-\release{2.1 rc 1}             % software release, not documentation
+\release{2.1c1}                        % software release, not documentation
 \setshortversion{2.1}          % major.minor only for software