diff --git a/go1.17.changes b/go1.17.changes
index caa326f..7e25900 100644
--- a/go1.17.changes
+++ b/go1.17.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Tue Jul 13 22:47:16 UTC 2021 - Jeff Kowalczyk <jkowalczyk@suse.com>
+
+- go1.17rc1 (released 2021-07-13) is a release candidate version of
+  go1.17 cut from the master branch at the revision tagged
+  go1.17rc1.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Thu Jun 10 17:43:40 UTC 2021 - Jeff Kowalczyk <jkowalczyk@suse.com>
 
diff --git a/go1.17.spec b/go1.17.spec
index 7b7f579..74ab5bf 100644
--- a/go1.17.spec
+++ b/go1.17.spec
@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@
 %endif
 
 Name:           go1.17
-Version:        1.17beta1
+Version:        1.17rc1
 Release:        0
 Summary:        A compiled, garbage-collected, concurrent programming language
 License:        BSD-3-Clause
diff --git a/go1.17beta1.src.tar.gz b/go1.17beta1.src.tar.gz
deleted file mode 100644
index dbbc10e..0000000
--- a/go1.17beta1.src.tar.gz
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
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-size 22145306
diff --git a/go1.17rc1.src.tar.gz b/go1.17rc1.src.tar.gz
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..59d0647
--- /dev/null
+++ b/go1.17rc1.src.tar.gz
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
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