diff --git a/bin/version b/bin/version
index 0847d46dbf2eab160b594ac1e30775b36791282c..b7ed9ca7c7c81c742a672298b109dba04e62e68a 100755
--- a/bin/version
+++ b/bin/version
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
 
-VERSION="v0.26.0-snapshot"
+VERSION="v0.26.0.RC2"
 
 # dynamically pull more interesting stuff from latest git commit
 HASH=$(git show-ref --head --hash=7 head)            # first 7 letters of hash should be enough; that's what GitHub uses