diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 7bc58bd0cd..a927b9660a 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+2.3.8rc1 to 2.3.8rc2:
+
+
 2.3.7 to 2.3.8rc1:
   - Fix str to bytes comparisons in checkProxy.py (Todor Ivanov) #12174
   - Replace xquery with query, due to deprecation of the former since HTCondor 10.7.0 (Kenyi Hurtado) #12158
diff --git a/src/python/WMCore/__init__.py b/src/python/WMCore/__init__.py
index 6847ea0866..a6bf4fa35b 100644
--- a/src/python/WMCore/__init__.py
+++ b/src/python/WMCore/__init__.py
@@ -6,5 +6,5 @@
 
 """
 
-__version__ = '2.3.8rc1'
+__version__ = '2.3.8rc2'
 __all__ = []