Bump version numbers for upcoming release candidate.
diff --git a/Doc/Makefile b/Doc/Makefile
index 4d7619b..a2da302 100644
--- a/Doc/Makefile
+++ b/Doc/Makefile
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@
# This is the *documentation* release, and is used to construct the file
# names of the downloadable tarballs.
-RELEASE=2.1b2
+RELEASE=2.1rc1
PYTHON= python
DVIPS= dvips -N0 -t $(PAPER)
diff --git a/Doc/texinputs/boilerplate.tex b/Doc/texinputs/boilerplate.tex
index 660f298..87c301f 100644
--- a/Doc/texinputs/boilerplate.tex
+++ b/Doc/texinputs/boilerplate.tex
@@ -6,5 +6,5 @@
}
\date{\today} % XXX update before release!
-\release{2.1 beta 2} % software release, not documentation
+\release{2.1 rc 1} % software release, not documentation
\setshortversion{2.1} % major.minor only for software