diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/releases/11.1R/Makefile b/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/releases/11.1R/Makefile
index 8488bca727..cd3be227b7 100644
--- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/releases/11.1R/Makefile
+++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/releases/11.1R/Makefile
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 
 _OS?=		FreeBSD
 _REVISION?=	11.1
-_BRANCH?=	RC1
+_BRANCH?=	RC2
 THISRELEASE?=	${_OS}-${_REVISION}-${_BRANCH}
 
 DOCS=	index.xml \
diff --git a/share/xml/news.xml b/share/xml/news.xml
index ccb5c75f82..6d0e8617da 100644
--- a/share/xml/news.xml
+++ b/share/xml/news.xml
@@ -34,6 +34,23 @@
     <month>
       <name>7</name>
 
+      <day>
+	<name>8</name>
+
+	<event>
+	  <title>&os;&nbsp;11.1-RC2 Available</title>
+
+	  <p>The second RC build for the &os;&nbsp;11.1 release cycle
+	    is now available.  ISO images for the amd64, armv6, i386,
+	    aarch64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are
+	    <a
+	      href="&lists.stable;/2017-July/087368.html">available</a>
+	    on most of our <a
+	      href="&url.doc.base-en;/books/handbook/mirrors-ftp.html">&os;
+	      mirror sites</a>.</p>
+	</event>
+      </day>
+
       <day>
 	<name>1</name>
 
diff --git a/share/xml/release.ent b/share/xml/release.ent
index c387cabdfd..6d7c1c7ade 100644
--- a/share/xml/release.ent
+++ b/share/xml/release.ent
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@
 <!ENTITY beta.testing "INCLUDE">
 <!ENTITY % beta.testing "INCLUDE">
 <!ENTITY betarel.current '11.1'>
-<!ENTITY betarel.vers 'RC1'>
+<!ENTITY betarel.vers 'RC2'>
 <!ENTITY u.betarel.schedule '&base;/releases/&betarel.current;R/schedule.html'>
 
 <!-- If we have a second release in the release cycle (e.g. 5.x and 6.y