diff --git a/doc/mkexp.fodt b/doc/mkexp.fodt
index 5e3638fbe75b3b7a29cd7023b5a7ccbeea2c71e5..8b3a36830b18a69f88969e1701950619b10a8546 100644
--- a/doc/mkexp.fodt
+++ b/doc/mkexp.fodt
@@ -3018,7 +3018,7 @@
    </text:sequence-decls>
    <text:p text:style-name="P384">Make Experiments!</text:p>
    <text:p text:style-name="P373">Run-script generation for earth system models</text:p>
-   <text:p text:style-name="P374">Release 1.1.5dev</text:p>
+   <text:p text:style-name="P374">Release 1.1.5rc1</text:p>
    <text:p text:style-name="P344">Karl-Hermann Wieners<text:line-break/><text:span text:style-name="T303">Max-Planck-Institut für Meteorologie<text:line-break/>Hamburg</text:span></text:p>
    <text:table-of-content text:style-name="Sect1" text:protected="true" text:name="Table of Contents1">
     <text:table-of-content-source text:outline-level="10">
diff --git a/doc/mkexp.pdf b/doc/mkexp.pdf
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diff --git a/package_info.py b/package_info.py
index f25f6105c7ff006caea825343ac9fd252c6a77e2..5b7f5e73c90ba236767d57cd70ef1c865c6480d9 100644
--- a/package_info.py
+++ b/package_info.py
@@ -4,4 +4,4 @@ Information on package name and version
 
 full_name = 'Make Experiments!'
 name = 'mkexp'
-version = '1.1.5dev'
+version = '1.1.5rc1'