diff --git a/.zenodo.json b/.zenodo.json
index 13bfb2af7aa..09922b7823a 100644
--- a/.zenodo.json
+++ b/.zenodo.json
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 {
     "description": "Mirror of the Sage https://sagemath.org/ source tree", 
     "license": "other-open", 
-    "title": "sagemath/sage: 9.4.rc1", 
-    "version": "9.4.rc1", 
+    "title": "sagemath/sage: 9.4.rc2", 
+    "version": "9.4.rc2", 
     "upload_type": "software", 
-    "publication_date": "2021-08-08", 
+    "publication_date": "2021-08-12", 
     "creators": [
         {
             "affiliation": "SageMath.org", 
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
     "related_identifiers": [
         {
             "scheme": "url", 
-            "identifier": "https://github.com/sagemath/sage/tree/9.4.rc1", 
+            "identifier": "https://github.com/sagemath/sage/tree/9.4.rc2", 
             "relation": "isSupplementTo"
         }, 
         {
diff --git a/VERSION.txt b/VERSION.txt
index addb7757e98..86f2f3ee0ac 100644
--- a/VERSION.txt
+++ b/VERSION.txt
@@ -1 +1 @@
-SageMath version 9.4.rc1, Release Date: 2021-08-08
+SageMath version 9.4.rc2, Release Date: 2021-08-12
diff --git a/build/pkgs/configure/checksums.ini b/build/pkgs/configure/checksums.ini
index 9330b26c836..912600b9fd1 100644
--- a/build/pkgs/configure/checksums.ini
+++ b/build/pkgs/configure/checksums.ini
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 tarball=configure-VERSION.tar.gz
-sha1=ff7fc8bcbfabce94367f4e8419940f5a7d402f7a
-md5=30b2a0ecf21f59ec3821371e052a0721
-cksum=3452073606
+sha1=e8f46f84c091307a9ae09cc7ffa38d012cc20ea0
+md5=8040113ec761f1fa5754e0b44d8b309e
+cksum=1873580034
diff --git a/build/pkgs/configure/package-version.txt b/build/pkgs/configure/package-version.txt
index 918d65cf124..dabc369a7b4 100644
--- a/build/pkgs/configure/package-version.txt
+++ b/build/pkgs/configure/package-version.txt
@@ -1 +1 @@
-fd67ad41257c9c0907e1186dfeaea3412294f37d
+79dc8f55f8ca208a226e5c970b3e6a0e9bc2120a
diff --git a/build/pkgs/sagelib/package-version.txt b/build/pkgs/sagelib/package-version.txt
index f0e11a28ada..6a2cf68b85b 100644
--- a/build/pkgs/sagelib/package-version.txt
+++ b/build/pkgs/sagelib/package-version.txt
@@ -1 +1 @@
-9.4.rc1
+9.4.rc2
diff --git a/src/VERSION.txt b/src/VERSION.txt
index f0e11a28ada..6a2cf68b85b 100644
--- a/src/VERSION.txt
+++ b/src/VERSION.txt
@@ -1 +1 @@
-9.4.rc1
+9.4.rc2
diff --git a/src/bin/sage-version.sh b/src/bin/sage-version.sh
index a93d704e604..4fec7e5b50e 100644
--- a/src/bin/sage-version.sh
+++ b/src/bin/sage-version.sh
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # Sage version information for shell scripts
 # This file is auto-generated by the sage-update-version script, do not edit!
-SAGE_VERSION='9.4.rc1'
-SAGE_RELEASE_DATE='2021-08-08'
-SAGE_VERSION_BANNER='SageMath version 9.4.rc1, Release Date: 2021-08-08'
+SAGE_VERSION='9.4.rc2'
+SAGE_RELEASE_DATE='2021-08-12'
+SAGE_VERSION_BANNER='SageMath version 9.4.rc2, Release Date: 2021-08-12'
diff --git a/src/sage/version.py b/src/sage/version.py
index 0114e82ce04..17329893d01 100644
--- a/src/sage/version.py
+++ b/src/sage/version.py
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # Sage version information for Python scripts
 # This file is auto-generated by the sage-update-version script, do not edit!
-version = '9.4.rc1'
-date = '2021-08-08'
-banner = 'SageMath version 9.4.rc1, Release Date: 2021-08-08'
+version = '9.4.rc2'
+date = '2021-08-12'
+banner = 'SageMath version 9.4.rc2, Release Date: 2021-08-12'