diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 0838909ffa3fe16123400b424c287800306e6416..22cb17335962528c4d098cac7636c9cda2711515 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,6 +1,19 @@
 News
 ====
 
+Version 2.2.1 rc1
+-----------------
+
+*(Released Thu, 14 Oct 2010)*
+
+- Fix interaction between Curl/GnuTLS and the Python's HTTP server
+  (thanks Apollon Oikonomopoulos!), finally allowing the use of Curl
+  with GnuTLS
+- Fix problems with interaction between Curl and Python's HTTP server,
+  resulting in increased speed in many RPC calls
+- Improve our release script to prevent breakage with older aclocal and
+  Python 2.6
+
 Version 2.2.1 rc0
 -----------------
 
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index d2771425d04a5da50ef792bff6e0b9d45baf933a..042f8a2c3575b49b911fccd537eeb1d89e299914 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 m4_define([gnt_version_major], [2])
 m4_define([gnt_version_minor], [2])
 m4_define([gnt_version_revision], [1])
-m4_define([gnt_version_suffix], [~rc0])
+m4_define([gnt_version_suffix], [~rc1])
 m4_define([gnt_version_full],
           m4_format([%d.%d.%d%s],
                     gnt_version_major, gnt_version_minor,