# HG changeset patch
# User John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
# Date 1308675460 14400
# Node ID 1887d8400ba3bf7aa3555d1db700cf9f34bdee3f
# Parent  3347ccb91708820d1700042069625c2d2c40fe15
First release candidate for 3.4.2

* configure.ac (AC_INIT): Version is now 3.4.2-rc1.
* NEWS: Update for release.

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+Summary of important user-visible changes for version 3.4.2:
+-----------------------------------------------------------
+
+ ** Octave 3.2.4 fixes some minor installation problems that affected
+    version 3.4.1.
+
 Summary of important user-visible changes for version 3.4.1:
 -----------------------------------------------------------
 
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
 EXTERN_CFLAGS="$CFLAGS"
 EXTERN_CXXFLAGS="$CXXFLAGS"
 
-AC_INIT([GNU Octave], [3.4.1], [http://octave.org/bugs.html], [octave])
+AC_INIT([GNU Octave], [3.4.2-rc1], [http://octave.org/bugs.html], [octave])
 
 dnl PACKAGE_VERSION is set by the AC_INIT VERSION arg
 OCTAVE_VERSION="$PACKAGE_VERSION"