diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.5.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.5.0.txt
index 3100b26..b516335 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.5.0.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.5.0.txt
@@ -46,8 +46,8 @@
    rely on symbolic links and make sharing of objects and refs safer
    by making the borrowee and borrowers aware of each other.
 
-   Consider this as still an experimental feature; the UI will likely
-   to change.
+   Consider this as still an experimental feature; its UI is still
+   likely to change.
 
  * Tweak the sample "store" backend of the credential helper to honor
    XDG configuration file locations when specified.
@@ -211,6 +211,8 @@
    underlying "git fetch" and then learned to use parse-options
    parser.
 
+ * Clarify in the Makefile a guideline to decide use of USE_NSEC.
+
 Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
 
 
@@ -487,6 +489,45 @@
  * A minor bugfix when pack bitmap is used with "rev-list --count".
    (merge c8a70d3 jk/rev-list-no-bitmap-while-pruning later to maint).
 
+ * "git config" failed to update the configuration file when the
+   underlying filesystem is incapable of renaming a file that is still
+   open.
+   (merge 7a64592 kb/config-unmap-before-renaming later to maint).
+
+ * Avoid possible ssize_t to int truncation.
+   (merge 6c8afe4 mh/strbuf-read-file-returns-ssize-t later to maint).
+
+ * When you say "!<ENTER>" while running say "git log", you'd confuse
+   yourself in the resulting shell, that may look as if you took
+   control back to the original shell you spawned "git log" from but
+   that isn't what is happening.  To that new shell, we leaked
+   GIT_PAGER_IN_USE environment variable that was meant as a local
+   communication between the original "Git" and subprocesses that was
+   spawned by it after we launched the pager, which caused many
+   "interesting" things to happen, e.g. "git diff | cat" still paints
+   its output in color by default.
+
+   Stop leaking that environment variable to the pager's half of the
+   fork; we only need it on "Git" side when we spawn the pager.
+   (merge 124b519 jc/unexport-git-pager-in-use-in-pager later to maint).
+
+ * Abandoning an already applied change in "git rebase -i" with
+   "--continue" left CHERRY_PICK_HEAD and confused later steps.
+   (merge 0e0aff4 js/rebase-i-clean-up-upon-continue-to-skip later to maint).
+
+ * We used to ask libCURL to use the most secure authentication method
+   available when talking to an HTTP proxy only when we were told to
+   talk to one via configuration variables.  We now ask libCURL to
+   always use the most secure authentication method, because the user
+   can tell libCURL to use an HTTP proxy via an environment variable
+   without using configuration variables.
+   (merge 5841520 et/http-proxyauth later to maint).
+
+ * A fix to a minor regression to "git fsck" in v2.2 era that started
+   complaining about a body-less tag object when it lacks a separator
+   empty line after its header to separate it with a non-existent body.
+   (merge 84d18c0 jc/fsck-retire-require-eoh later to maint).
+
  * Code cleanups and documentation updates.
    (merge 0269f96 mm/usage-log-l-can-take-regex later to maint).
    (merge 64f2589 nd/t1509-chroot-test later to maint).
@@ -521,3 +562,4 @@
    (merge 5330e6e sb/p5310-and-chain later to maint).
    (merge c4ac525 tb/checkout-doc later to maint).
    (merge e479c5f jk/pretty-encoding-doc later to maint).
+   (merge 7e837c6 ss/clone-guess-dir-name-simplify later to maint).
diff --git a/GIT-VERSION-GEN b/GIT-VERSION-GEN
index b34941c..8ffa336 100755
--- a/GIT-VERSION-GEN
+++ b/GIT-VERSION-GEN
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 
 GVF=GIT-VERSION-FILE
-DEF_VER=v2.5.0-rc1
+DEF_VER=v2.5.0-rc2
 
 LF='
 '