diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index ca4149a12..5e1aba16f 100755
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ phpMyAdmin - Changelog
 $Id$
 $Source$
 
+2001-10-03  Marc Delisle  <lem9@users.sourceforge.net>
+	* release 2.2.1-rc1
+
 2001-10-03  Geert Lund  <glund@silversoft.dk>
 	* libraries/common.lib.php3: fixed localised_date() function:
 	  - get correct month name (and not month+1)
diff --git a/libraries/defines.lib.php3 b/libraries/defines.lib.php3
index 7b0b1165d..c3e3a0369 100644
--- a/libraries/defines.lib.php3
+++ b/libraries/defines.lib.php3
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
  */
 // phpMyAdmin release
 if (!defined('PHPMYADMIN_VERSION')) {
-    define('PHPMYADMIN_VERSION', '2.2.1-dev');
+    define('PHPMYADMIN_VERSION', '2.2.1-rc1');
 }
 
 // php version