diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 09488a73d4f7f7dc25f925dd5a0578ed2fcb78d2..5cb7ec6adb5692c39252aa2c09f52402449b9207 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ News
 Version 2.2.0 rc0
 -----------------
 
-*(UNRELEASED)*
+*(Released Fri, 30 Jul 2010)*
 
 Important change: the internal RPC mechanism between Ganeti nodes has
 changed from using a home-grown http library (based on the Python base
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 1f1a89f6ca8c193e8662f857bee4a47488c55c74..541f794aa0e9d7dc929a8e957250f6308f5fcab8 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], [0])
-m4_define([gnt_version_suffix], [~beta0])
+m4_define([gnt_version_suffix], [~rc0])
 m4_define([gnt_version_full],
           m4_format([%d.%d.%d%s],
                     gnt_version_major, gnt_version_minor,