diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 198a37f57e5..764aa8d81a5 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 PHP                                                                        NEWS
 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
+?? ??? 2004, PHP 5 Release Candidate 1
+
 12 Feb 2004, PHP 5 Beta 4
 - Changed exceptions so that they must now inherit from the built-in Exception
   class. This allows for a general catch(Exception $e) statement to catch all
diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index b86c677b24d..49460892a35 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ AC_CONFIG_HEADER(main/php_config.h)
 MAJOR_VERSION=5
 MINOR_VERSION=0
 RELEASE_VERSION=0
-EXTRA_VERSION="b4"
+EXTRA_VERSION="RC1-dev"
 VERSION="$MAJOR_VERSION.$MINOR_VERSION.$RELEASE_VERSION$EXTRA_VERSION"
 
 dnl Define where extension directories are located in the configure context
diff --git a/main/php_version.h b/main/php_version.h
index c02f035f2f0..2b071138542 100644
--- a/main/php_version.h
+++ b/main/php_version.h
@@ -3,5 +3,5 @@
 #define PHP_MAJOR_VERSION 5
 #define PHP_MINOR_VERSION 0
 #define PHP_RELEASE_VERSION 0
-#define PHP_EXTRA_VERSION "b4"
-#define PHP_VERSION "5.0.0b4"
+#define PHP_EXTRA_VERSION "RC1-dev"
+#define PHP_VERSION "5.0.0RC1-dev"