diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 22cb17335962528c4d098cac7636c9cda2711515..f39819a88625826fab8f0397cb64a6748e0a8332 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,6 +1,14 @@
 News
 ====
 
+Version 2.2.1
+-------------
+
+*(Released Tue, 19 Oct 2010)*
+
+- Disable SSL session ID cache in RPC client
+
+
 Version 2.2.1 rc1
 -----------------
 
@@ -14,6 +22,7 @@ Version 2.2.1 rc1
 - 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 042f8a2c3575b49b911fccd537eeb1d89e299914..0df9f2b724341d32540fbc93ca4e26f51b824ca9 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], [~rc1])
+m4_define([gnt_version_suffix], [])
 m4_define([gnt_version_full],
           m4_format([%d.%d.%d%s],
                     gnt_version_major, gnt_version_minor,