diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.43.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.43.2.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5895e23
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.43.2.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+Git 2.43.2 Release Notes
+========================
+
+Relative to Git 2.43.1, this release has two important fixes to allow
+"git imap-send" to be built with NO_CURL defined, and to restore the
+forced flushing behaviour when GIT_FLUSH=1 is set.  It also contains
+other, unexciting, fixes that have already been merged to the 'master'
+branch of the development towards the next major release.
+
+Fixes since Git 2.43.1
+----------------------
+
+ * Update to a new feature recently added, "git show-ref --exists".
+
+ * Rename detection logic ignored the final line of a file if it is an
+   incomplete line.
+
+ * "git diff --no-rename A B" did not disable rename detection but did
+   not trigger an error from the command line parser.
+
+ * "git diff --no-index file1 file2" segfaulted while invoking the
+   external diff driver, which has been corrected.
+
+ * Rewrite //-comments to /* comments */ in files whose comments
+   prevalently use the latter.
+
+ * A failed "git tag -s" did not necessarily result in an error
+   depending on the crypto backend, which has been corrected.
+
+ * "git stash" sometimes was silent even when it failed due to
+   unwritable index file, which has been corrected.
+
+ * Recent conversion to allow more than 0/1 in GIT_FLUSH broke the
+   mechanism by flipping what yes/no means by mistake, which has been
+   corrected.
+
+Also contains documentation updates, code clean-ups and minor fixups.
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.44.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.44.0.txt
index 1b823da..30dbdcf 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.44.0.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.44.0.txt
@@ -254,21 +254,18 @@
    data from commit-graph too early, which has been corrected.
 
  * Update to a new feature recently added, "git show-ref --exists".
-   (merge 0aabeaa562 tc/show-ref-exists-fix later to maint).
 
  * oss-fuzz tests are built and run in CI.
    (merge c4a9cf1df3 js/oss-fuzz-build-in-ci later to maint).
 
  * Rename detection logic ignored the final line of a file if it is an
    incomplete line.
-   (merge 1c5bc6971e en/diffcore-delta-final-line-fix later to maint).
 
  * GitHub CI update.
    (merge 0188b2c8e0 pb/ci-github-skip-logs-for-broken-tests later to maint).
 
  * "git diff --no-rename A B" did not disable rename detection but did
    not trigger an error from the command line parser.
-   (merge 457f96252f rs/parse-options-with-keep-unknown-abbrev-fix later to maint).
 
  * "git archive --remote=<remote>" learned to talk over the smart
    http (aka stateless) transport.
@@ -285,11 +282,9 @@
 
  * "git diff --no-index file1 file2" segfaulted while invoking the
    external diff driver, which has been corrected.
-   (merge 85a9a63c92 jk/diff-external-with-no-index later to maint).
 
  * Rewrite //-comments to /* comments */ in files whose comments
    prevalently use the latter.
-   (merge de65079d7b jc/comment-style-fixes later to maint).
 
  * Cirrus CI jobs started breaking because we specified version of
    FreeBSD that is no longer available, which has been corrected.
@@ -301,11 +296,9 @@
 
  * A failed "git tag -s" did not necessarily result in an error
    depending on the crypto backend, which has been corrected.
-   (merge 6931049c32 jc/sign-buffer-failure-propagation-fix later to maint).
 
  * "git stash" sometimes was silent even when it failed due to
    unwritable index file, which has been corrected.
-   (merge d2058cb2f0 ps/report-failure-from-git-stash later to maint).
 
  * "git show-ref --verify" did not show things like "CHERRY_PICK_HEAD",
    which has been corrected.
@@ -313,21 +306,9 @@
  * Recent conversion to allow more than 0/1 in GIT_FLUSH broke the
    mechanism by flipping what yes/no means by mistake, which has been
    corrected.
-   (merge b40ba17e44 cp/git-flush-is-an-env-bool later to maint).
 
  * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
    (merge 5aea3955bc rj/clarify-branch-doc-m later to maint).
    (merge 9cce3be2df bk/bisect-doc-fix later to maint).
-   (merge 8f50984cf4 ne/doc-filter-blob-limit-fix later to maint).
-   (merge f10b0989b8 la/strvec-comment-fix later to maint).
    (merge 8430b438f6 vd/fsck-submodule-url-test later to maint).
-   (merge f10031fadd nb/rebase-x-shell-docfix later to maint).
-   (merge af3d2c160f jc/majordomo-to-subspace later to maint).
-   (merge ee9895b0ff sd/negotiate-trace-fix later to maint).
-   (merge 976d0251ce jc/coc-whitespace-fix later to maint).
-   (merge 9023198280 jt/p4-spell-re-with-raw-string later to maint).
-   (merge 36c9c44fa4 tb/pack-bitmap-drop-unused-struct-member later to maint).
-   (merge 19ed0dff8f js/win32-retry-pipe-write-on-enospc later to maint).
    (merge 3cb4384683 jc/t0091-with-unknown-git later to maint).
-   (merge 841dbd40a3 jc/bisect-doc later to maint).
-   (merge 78307f1a89 pb/template-for-single-commit-pr later to maint).
diff --git a/GIT-VERSION-GEN b/GIT-VERSION-GEN
index 31db92f..d3a33f0 100755
--- a/GIT-VERSION-GEN
+++ b/GIT-VERSION-GEN
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 
 GVF=GIT-VERSION-FILE
-DEF_VER=v2.44.0-rc0
+DEF_VER=v2.44.0-rc1
 
 LF='
 '