diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.41.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.41.0.txt
index c77484c6b54..8a9e17016e4 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.41.0.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.41.0.txt
@@ -65,9 +65,9 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
    has symbolic links inside its $GIT_DIR; an error message when that
    happens has been updated.
 
- * "git branch --format=..." and "git format-patch --format=..."
-   learns "--omit-empty" to hide refs that whose formatting result
-   becomes an empty string from the output.
+ * The "--format=..." option of "git for-each-ref", "git branch", and
+   "git tag" commands learn "--omit-empty" to hide refs whose
+   formatting results in an empty string from the output.
 
  * The sendemail-validate validate hook learned to pass the total
    number of input files and where in the sequence each invocation is
diff --git a/GIT-VERSION-GEN b/GIT-VERSION-GEN
index 85d7d7a2f48..2ef084f02ad 100755
--- a/GIT-VERSION-GEN
+++ b/GIT-VERSION-GEN
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 
 GVF=GIT-VERSION-FILE
-DEF_VER=v2.41.0-rc1
+DEF_VER=v2.41.0-rc2
 
 LF='
 '