diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 05a85ff9d41..4bd47f6bb54 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 PHP                                                                        NEWS
 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
-?? Oct 2008, PHP 5.2.7RC2
+23 Oct 2008, PHP 5.2.7RC2
 - Upgraded bundled libzip to 0.9.0. (Pierre)
 
 - Fixed extraction of zip files or directories when the entry name is 
diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index b4ae624374a..27bf4be4736 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ AC_CONFIG_HEADER(main/php_config.h)
 PHP_MAJOR_VERSION=5
 PHP_MINOR_VERSION=2
 PHP_RELEASE_VERSION=7
-PHP_EXTRA_VERSION="RC2-dev"
+PHP_EXTRA_VERSION="RC2"
 PHP_VERSION="$PHP_MAJOR_VERSION.$PHP_MINOR_VERSION.$PHP_RELEASE_VERSION$PHP_EXTRA_VERSION"
 PHP_VERSION_ID=`expr [$]PHP_MAJOR_VERSION \* 10000 + [$]PHP_MINOR_VERSION \* 100 + [$]PHP_RELEASE_VERSION`
 
diff --git a/main/php_version.h b/main/php_version.h
index f14f85bdb40..ab00df24f93 100644
--- a/main/php_version.h
+++ b/main/php_version.h
@@ -3,6 +3,6 @@
 #define PHP_MAJOR_VERSION 5
 #define PHP_MINOR_VERSION 2
 #define PHP_RELEASE_VERSION 7
-#define PHP_EXTRA_VERSION "RC2-dev"
-#define PHP_VERSION "5.2.7RC2-dev"
+#define PHP_EXTRA_VERSION "RC2"
+#define PHP_VERSION "5.2.7RC2"
 #define PHP_VERSION_ID 50207