diff --git a/changelog.txt b/changelog.txt
index 4f3c5eeccf..af18d8d4f0 100644
--- a/changelog.txt
+++ b/changelog.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,14 @@
+v0.20.2-rc1 (2019-01-27)
+~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+* no terminal multivisits (#683)
+* better fix for issue 651 (#693)
+* Changed output of --help flag to stdout rather than stderr (#687)
+* Movegen speedup via magic bitboards (#640)
+* modify default benchmark setting to run for 10 seconds (#681)
+* Fix incorrect index in OpenCL Winograd output transform (#676)
+* Update OpenCL (#655)
+
 v0.20.1 (2019-01-07)
 ~~~~~~~
 
diff --git a/src/version.inc b/src/version.inc
index 046b5d007e..fba01adc79 100644
--- a/src/version.inc
+++ b/src/version.inc
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 #define LC0_VERSION_MAJOR 0
 #define LC0_VERSION_MINOR 20
-#define LC0_VERSION_PATCH 1
-#define LC0_VERSION_POSTFIX ""
+#define LC0_VERSION_PATCH 2
+#define LC0_VERSION_POSTFIX "rc1"