diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 1cbb8133aa..2b18dacead 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2.1.7rc1 to 2.1.7rc2:
+  - MSPileup service data management layer (Valentin Kuznetsov) #11438
+  - Fix file open issue (Valentin Kuznetsov) #11431
+
+
 2.1.6 to 2.1.7rc1:
   - Update WMAgent deploy script to use deployment HEAD/master (Alan Malta Rodrigues) #11448
   - Add ORA-25401 to the list of handled exceptions in DBExceptionHandler. (Todor Ivanov) #11447
diff --git a/src/python/WMCore/__init__.py b/src/python/WMCore/__init__.py
index ed1d1673c7..1ca808447c 100644
--- a/src/python/WMCore/__init__.py
+++ b/src/python/WMCore/__init__.py
@@ -6,5 +6,5 @@
 
 """
 
-__version__ = '2.1.7rc1'
+__version__ = '2.1.7rc2'
 __all__ = []