diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index 05aaaa73bfa93faf503442574d3f3ce40120e432..708dba787ff56ca1d663de0616f7bc9acd271812 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ AC_INIT(sql/mysqld.cc)
 AC_CANONICAL_SYSTEM
 # The Docs Makefile.am parses this line!
 # remember to also change ndb version below and update version.c in ndb
-AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(mysql, 5.0.13-beta)
+AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(mysql, 5.0.13-rc)
 AM_CONFIG_HEADER(config.h)
 
 PROTOCOL_VERSION=10
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ SHARED_LIB_VERSION=15:0:0
 NDB_VERSION_MAJOR=5
 NDB_VERSION_MINOR=0
 NDB_VERSION_BUILD=13
-NDB_VERSION_STATUS="beta"
+NDB_VERSION_STATUS="rc"
 
 # Set all version vars based on $VERSION. How do we do this more elegant ?
 # Remember that regexps needs to quote [ and ] since this is run through m4