diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index bd7ad9ccb413adbf4f6942bab34b980a1cec48df..742eaee795685f2b3502c546cdbf453118293105 100755
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,65 @@
+2011-10-11  cc434b0            [RELEASE] Release of TYPO3 4.6.0rc1 (TYPO3 v4 Release Team)
+2011-10-11  7c26376  #29788    [BUGFIX] EM: Fix button "close window" after fulfilling dependencies (Kay Strobach)
+2011-10-11  50ff614            [TASK] Raise submodule pointer (TYPO3 v4 Release Team)
+2011-10-11  54f35c3  #28951    [BUGFIX] Showmodule cannot be called before Store is loaded (Oliver Hader)
+2011-10-11  ebc8067            [BUGFIX] backend.php wrongly checks deprecated TSconfig (Xavier Perseguers)
+2011-10-11  dea8357  #30759    [BUGFIX] Replace debug with call to deprecationLog (Tolleiv Nietsch)
+2011-10-11  7c24e31  #30756    [TASK] Merge linkvalidator for RC1 (Philipp Gampe)
+2011-10-11  c03865a  #30257    [BUGFIX] EM: Remove nested form tag (Helmut Hummel)
+2011-10-11  404f619            [BUGFIX] Wrong alignment of French labels for login screen (Eric Chavaillaz)
+2011-10-11  edc6bfe  #28793    [TASK] Remove space between ExtJS tbar and related panel (Kay Strobach)
+2011-10-11  bb635a8  #25787    [BUGFIX] handler is undefined when resizing the backend (Simon Schaufelberger)
+2011-10-11  6b07e40  #28275    [BUGFIX] Implement availability checks for rsaauth (Helmut Hummel)
+2011-10-11  3f8d0b0  #22328    [BUGFIX] md5.js fails with non-ascii-characters (Stefan Neufeind)
+2011-10-10  0c3c2a2  #30673    [BUGFIX] Race-condition while updating extension list (Steffen Gebert)
+2011-10-10  8cb8b4a  #30613    [TASK] Remove unused option for "oncontextmenu" (Benjamin Mack)
+2011-10-10  03895f1  #30704    [BUGFIX] Typo in the Extension Manager (Dmitry Dulepov)
+2011-10-10  b36c82d  #27660    [BUGFIX] Wide split bar areas don't work in Chrome (Kay Strobach)
+2011-10-10  cca70cd  #28854    [TASK] Update codemirror to recent version 0.9.4 (Tobias Liebig)
+2011-10-10  24a9ad7  #30725    [BUGFIX] Copyright year in HTML comment is hardcoded (Andreas Wolf)
+2011-10-10  5fe69c8  #30723    [TASK] Update md5 checksums for system extensions (Xavier Perseguers)
+2011-10-10  8e6a09e  #28352    [FEATURE] Generate cHash only if needed (Popy)
+2011-10-10  f07f249  #30670    [TASK] Increase default titleLen (Felix Kopp)
+2011-10-10  a22d9a6  #30709    [TASK] Update sysext form documentation (Xavier Perseguers)
+2011-10-10  de270be            [BUGFIX] All fields of 'type'=>'group' are broken in IE (Jigal van Hemert)
+2011-10-10  d80d516  #30700    [TASK] Deprecate template::clearCacheMenu() (Xavier Perseguers)
+2011-10-09  d124597  #30645    Revert "[FEATURE] Speed-up Backend with CardLayout" (Xavier Perseguers)
+2011-10-09  86993f4  #30369    [BUGFIX] EM: Available extension list misses icons (Steffen Gebert)
+2011-10-08  3bd8317  #30646    [TASK] TSFE - Add hook after BE_USER init to clean up workspace functionality (Benjamin Mack)
+2011-10-08  caec29f  #30669    [TASK] Clean up EM CSS file (Steffen Gebert)
+2011-10-07  cb13eae  #27098    [BUGFIX] EM, Error when downloading extension files (Markus Klein)
+2011-10-07  1afc001  #29783,#  [BUGFIX] Don't add uid,pid if  <table>.'*' is present in field list. (Bjoern Pedersen)
+2011-10-07  e6e90b2  #30598    [BUGFIX] PHP warning on each Extension Manager invocation (Dmitry Dulepov)
+2011-10-07  454aa1c  #29594    [TASK] Introduce Hooks to create DB fields and keys dynamically (Thomas Maroschik)
+2011-10-07  e63c300            [BUGFIX] Prevent duplicate stdWrap for media content (Alexander Stehlik)
+2011-10-07  bef7ecc            [BUGFIX] Random miscalculations in ImageTTFBBox (Albrecht Koehnlein)
+2011-10-06  8dfc14a  #29243    [BUGFIX] EM installs outdated versions of depending extensions (Steffen Gebert)
+2011-10-06  bb67887  #29445    [BUGFIX] Typo in gifbuilder (Simon Schaufelberger)
+2011-10-06  230f3ca  #29855    [BUGFIX] RTE: Tag attributes are reversed on save (Stanislas Rolland)
+2011-10-06  17e41ab  #25398    [BUGFIX] TCEforms draws huge empty icon row which on select-fields (Benjamin Mack)
+2011-10-06  9dbe5a4            [TASK] Fix CGL issue in recent saltedpasswords commit (Oliver Hader)
+2011-10-06  78b522a            Revert "[FEATURE] Indexed Search: add mySQL fulltext support" (Xavier Perseguers)
+2011-10-06  f1ee217  #22881    [BUGFIX] Removed dependency on TYPO3_MODE in saltedpasswords (Alexander Stehlik)
+2011-10-05  1eb014d  #29774    [TASK] Improve information in show_item.php (Soren Malling)
+2011-10-05  d9cac57  #28613    [FEATURE] Indexed Search: add mySQL fulltext support (Stefan Neufeind)
+2011-10-05  581a918  #29782    [BUGFIX] Email links marked as external when preceded by external link (Stanislas Rolland)
+2011-10-04  e3a8434  #30416    [BUGFIX] meaningfulTempFilePrefix is not multi-byte safe (Steffen Gebert)
+2011-10-04  bc68334  #30213    [BUGFIX] Copying directories is impossible (Andreas Wolf)
+2011-10-04  4022be5            [BUGFIX] config.compressCss = 1 does not work (Xavier Perseguers)
+2011-10-04  aced7a2  #30534    [BUGFIX] RTE: Add TYPO3 version to hash of cached scripts (Stanislas Rolland)
+2011-10-04  a293405  #30533    [BUGFIX] RTE: Compressor fails on files with absolute url in FE (Stanislas Rolland)
+2011-10-02  6ee19fa            [BUGFIX] Module User Settings calls deprecated methods (Xavier Perseguers)
+2011-10-02  9ec94db            [BUGFIX] Modify jumpTo to work with the new cardLayout (Kay Strobach)
+2011-10-02  3f7a326            [BUGFIX] Link to manual of sysext "form" is not displayed in EM (Xavier Perseguers)
+2011-09-30  7005e5e  #30095    [BUGFIX][SECURITY] Arbitrary TypoScript execution on system extension form (Oliver Hader)
+2011-09-27  1bff153  #29019    [BUGFIX] getSingleField_typeFlex doesn't respect TSconfig settings (cybercraft)
+2011-09-22  2e7974c  #30171    [TASK] Update reference from SVN to Git (Xavier Perseguers)
+2011-09-21  6954685            [BUGFIX][t3editor] typolinkEnableLinksAcrossDomains missing (Steffen Gebert)
+2011-09-20  e444e45  #30094    [TASK] Refactor view component of system extension form (Oliver Hader)
+2011-09-20  9c9a116            [TASK] Set TYPO3 version to 4.6-dev (TYPO3 v4 Release Team)
+2011-09-20  2eefa74            [RELEASE] Release of TYPO3 4.6.0beta3 (TYPO3 v4 Release Team)
+
+
 2011-09-20  3dcd788            [RELEASE] Release of TYPO3 4.6.0beta3 (TYPO3 v4 Release Team)
 2011-09-20  0ff1756            [TASK] Raise submodule pointer (TYPO3 v4 Release Team)
 2011-09-20  1b779a5            [BUGFIX] check for required PHP modules in Reports module (Jigal van Hemert)
diff --git a/t3lib/config_default.php b/t3lib/config_default.php
index 87c9a09111aed73e6a293cbac3947f10d96f699a..b336a043000dd3657c01881ac0cb57c2c61c7e9d 100644
--- a/t3lib/config_default.php
+++ b/t3lib/config_default.php
@@ -707,7 +707,7 @@ if (TYPO3_MODE === 'BE') {
 $T3_VAR = array();	// Initialize.
 
 	// TYPO3 version
-$TYPO_VERSION = '4.6-dev';	// @deprecated: Will be removed in TYPO3 4.8. Use the constants defined below
+$TYPO_VERSION = '4.6.0rc1';	// @deprecated: Will be removed in TYPO3 4.8. Use the constants defined below
 define('TYPO3_version', $TYPO_VERSION);
 define('TYPO3_branch', '4.6');
 define('TYPO3_copyright_year', '1998-2011');