diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index d0f259b754..34ae7ff80d 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2024-05-19 - V5.4.0-rc2
+* Fix setup of datadir on installations with Conda (issue #4230) (#4240)
+* Fix FP exception in Wordrec::angle_change (issue #4242) (#4243)
+
 2024-05-12 - V5.4.0-rc1
 * Build fixes, code refactoring and other smaller changes.
 * Fix grey result of indexed PNG in pdfrenderer.
diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index 38ae141514..a7490b74ef 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-5.4.0-rc1
+5.4.0-rc2
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index ac45e08c7e..378354b4e4 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([foreign subdir-objects nostdinc])
 # Define date of package, etc. Could be useful in auto-generated
 # documentation.
 PACKAGE_YEAR=2024
-PACKAGE_DATE="05/12"
+PACKAGE_DATE="05/19"
 
 abs_top_srcdir=`AS_DIRNAME([$0])`