diff --git a/doc/mkexp.fodt b/doc/mkexp.fodt
index 9faa7667def1d47329c29e86e12ac56f6e09d99e..cacf9569c3984f9354d494d9dab493724e2f05e5 100644
--- a/doc/mkexp.fodt
+++ b/doc/mkexp.fodt
@@ -3240,7 +3240,7 @@
    </text:sequence-decls>
    <text:p text:style-name="P421">Make Experiments!</text:p>
    <text:p text:style-name="P5">Run-script generation for earth system models</text:p>
-   <text:p text:style-name="P332">Release 1.4.2rc1</text:p>
+   <text:p text:style-name="P332">Release 1.4.2rc2</text:p>
    <text:p text:style-name="P386">Karl-Hermann Wieners<text:line-break/><text:span text:style-name="T322">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 649b1493269077dbfebf2601d345ac36e36eab2b..4f39cc1495acbfa16fe07d07a50455eff1bc6188 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 = '1.4.2rc1'
+version = '1.4.2rc2'