diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.txt
index a557241aeb3d5acb2a862423c383847f80130190..fb7f761a38fbe55422084ee41362d0830f1f3a6b 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.txt
@@ -51,10 +51,6 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
    read. The error message in this case was updated to give better
    hints to the user.
 
- * git native protocol agents learned to show software version over
-   the wire, so that the server log can be examined to see the vintage
-   distribution of clients.
-
  * "git help -w $cmd" can show HTML version of documentation for
    "git-$cmd" by setting help.htmlpath to somewhere other than the
    default location where the build procedure installs them locally;
diff --git a/GIT-VERSION-GEN b/GIT-VERSION-GEN
index 4c1a79e3b26d332651dc0c22a4442e2962f3059a..54c1fc86e008ba347489f24a7d091c12be05a4e1 100755
--- a/GIT-VERSION-GEN
+++ b/GIT-VERSION-GEN
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 
 GVF=GIT-VERSION-FILE
-DEF_VER=v1.7.12-rc1
+DEF_VER=v1.7.12-rc2
 
 LF='
 '