diff --git a/checkpolicy/ChangeLog b/checkpolicy/ChangeLog
index 826b3f42..5cb47391 100644
--- a/checkpolicy/ChangeLog
+++ b/checkpolicy/ChangeLog
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-2.6-rc1 2016-09-30
+2.6-rc2 2016-10-06
 	* Remove Android.mk files and only keep them in Android tree, from Bowgo Tsai.
 	* Add types associated to a role in the current scope when parsing, from Nicolas Iooss.
 	* Extend checkpolicy pathname matching, from Stephen Smalley.
diff --git a/checkpolicy/VERSION b/checkpolicy/VERSION
index 7e05b9e2..5b4a3bda 100644
--- a/checkpolicy/VERSION
+++ b/checkpolicy/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-2.6-rc1
+2.6-rc2
diff --git a/libselinux/ChangeLog b/libselinux/ChangeLog
index 8351e262..c1478df1 100644
--- a/libselinux/ChangeLog
+++ b/libselinux/ChangeLog
@@ -1,8 +1,7 @@
+2.6-rc2 2016-10-06
 	* selinux_restorecon: fix realpath logic, from Stephen Smalley.
 	* query for python site-packages dir directly, from Jason Zaman.
 	* versioned ruby pkg-config and query vendorarchdir properly, from Jason Zaman.
-
-2.6-rc1 2016-09-30
 	* Revert 'Set DISABLE_RPM default to y', from Stephen Smalley.
 	* Re-introduce DISABLE_BOOL=y, from William Roberts.
 	* make android label backends configurable, from Janis Danisevskis.
diff --git a/libselinux/VERSION b/libselinux/VERSION
index 7e05b9e2..5b4a3bda 100644
--- a/libselinux/VERSION
+++ b/libselinux/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-2.6-rc1
+2.6-rc2
diff --git a/libsemanage/ChangeLog b/libsemanage/ChangeLog
index d2dd61d4..ba602009 100644
--- a/libsemanage/ChangeLog
+++ b/libsemanage/ChangeLog
@@ -1,9 +1,8 @@
+2.6-rc2 2016-10-06
 	* genhomedircon: do not suppress logging from libsepol, from Stephen Smaley.
 	* genhomedircon: use userprefix as the role for homedir, from Gary Tierney.
 	* Fix linker scripts / map files, from Stephen Smalley.
 	* Fix bug preventing the installation of base modules, from James Carter.
-
-2.6-rc1 2016-09-30
 	* make distclean target work, from Nicolas Iooss.
 	* Do not always print a module name warning, from Miroslav Grepl.
 	* Use pp module name instead of filename when installing module, from Petr Lautrbach.
diff --git a/libsemanage/VERSION b/libsemanage/VERSION
index 7e05b9e2..5b4a3bda 100644
--- a/libsemanage/VERSION
+++ b/libsemanage/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-2.6-rc1
+2.6-rc2
diff --git a/libsepol/ChangeLog b/libsepol/ChangeLog
index 253b1b9a..eb9b6008 100644
--- a/libsepol/ChangeLog
+++ b/libsepol/ChangeLog
@@ -1,9 +1,8 @@
+2.6-rc2 2016-10-06
 	* Fix linker scripts / map files, from Stephen Smalley.
 	* Fix bugs found by fuzzing secilc with AFL, from Nicolas Iooss.
 	* Add support for converting extended permissions to CIL, from James Carter.
 	* Create user and role caches when building binary policy, from Gary Tierney.
-
-2.6-rc1 2016-09-30
 	* Remove Android.mk files and only keep them in Android tree, from Bowgo Tsai.
 	* Check for too many permissions in classes and commons in CIL, from James Carter.
 	* Fix xperm mapping between avrule and avtab, from Jeff Vander Stoep.
diff --git a/libsepol/VERSION b/libsepol/VERSION
index 7e05b9e2..5b4a3bda 100644
--- a/libsepol/VERSION
+++ b/libsepol/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-2.6-rc1
+2.6-rc2
diff --git a/policycoreutils/ChangeLog b/policycoreutils/ChangeLog
index 7b408d44..3acf8843 100644
--- a/policycoreutils/ChangeLog
+++ b/policycoreutils/ChangeLog
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-2.6-rc1 2016-09-30
+2.6-rc2 2016-10-06
 	* setfiles: reverse the sense of -D option, from Stephen Smalley.
 	* setfiles ignore restorecon_xattr in git, from Nicolas Iooss.
 	* sandbox: Use dbus-run-session instead of dbus-launch when available, from Laurent Bigonville.
diff --git a/policycoreutils/VERSION b/policycoreutils/VERSION
index 7e05b9e2..5b4a3bda 100644
--- a/policycoreutils/VERSION
+++ b/policycoreutils/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-2.6-rc1
+2.6-rc2
diff --git a/secilc/ChangeLog b/secilc/ChangeLog
index 9d82426a..9e4b10fa 100644
--- a/secilc/ChangeLog
+++ b/secilc/ChangeLog
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-2.6-rc1 2016-09-30
+2.6-rc2 2016-10-06
 	* secilc: correct include path of cil.h for Android, from Bowgo Tsai.
 	* Remove Android.mk files and only keep them in Android tree, from Bowgo Tsai.
 	* Add documentation and test rule for portcon dccp protocol, from Richard Haines
diff --git a/secilc/VERSION b/secilc/VERSION
index 7e05b9e2..5b4a3bda 100644
--- a/secilc/VERSION
+++ b/secilc/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-2.6-rc1
+2.6-rc2
diff --git a/sepolgen/ChangeLog b/sepolgen/ChangeLog
index d4a38f23..01530fc3 100644
--- a/sepolgen/ChangeLog
+++ b/sepolgen/ChangeLog
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-2.6-rc1 2016-09-30
+2.6-rc2 2016-10-06
 	* Remove additional files when cleaning, from Nicolas Iooss.
 	* Add support for TYPEBOUNDS statement in INTERFACE policy files, from Miroslav Grepl.
 
diff --git a/sepolgen/VERSION b/sepolgen/VERSION
index 7e05b9e2..5b4a3bda 100644
--- a/sepolgen/VERSION
+++ b/sepolgen/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-2.6-rc1
+2.6-rc2