diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 63091e085..226e08b2b 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
 # SFLphone
 ################################################
 
+* 2010-04-09: 0.9.8 rc1 has been released
+
 * 2010-03-25: 0.9.8 beta has been released
 
 * 2009-12-10: SFLphone 0.9.7 has been released
diff --git a/sflphone-client-gnome/VERSION b/sflphone-client-gnome/VERSION
index 53cdfba09..e47b07669 100644
--- a/sflphone-client-gnome/VERSION
+++ b/sflphone-client-gnome/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-0.9.8~beta
+0.9.8~rc1
diff --git a/sflphone-client-gnome/configure.ac b/sflphone-client-gnome/configure.ac
index 0fbddbfe6..3c5d12fee 100644
--- a/sflphone-client-gnome/configure.ac
+++ b/sflphone-client-gnome/configure.ac
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-AC_INIT([SFLphone],[0.9.8~beta],[sflphoneteam@savoirfairelinux.com],[sflphone-client-gnome])
+AC_INIT([SFLphone],[0.9.8~rc1],[sflphoneteam@savoirfairelinux.com],[sflphone-client-gnome])
 AM_CONFIG_HEADER(config.h)
 
 LT_INIT
diff --git a/sflphone-client-gnome/doc/C/sflphone.xml b/sflphone-client-gnome/doc/C/sflphone.xml
index 050baa8da..36c01e9f0 100644
--- a/sflphone-client-gnome/doc/C/sflphone.xml
+++ b/sflphone-client-gnome/doc/C/sflphone.xml
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
 <!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook V4.1//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd"  [
 	<!ENTITY app "SFLphone">
-	<!ENTITY appversion "0.9.8~beta">
+	<!ENTITY appversion "0.9.8~rc1">
 	<!ENTITY docversion "1.0">
 ]>
 
diff --git a/sflphone-common/VERSION b/sflphone-common/VERSION
index 53cdfba09..e47b07669 100644
--- a/sflphone-common/VERSION
+++ b/sflphone-common/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-0.9.8~beta
+0.9.8~rc1
diff --git a/sflphone-common/configure.ac b/sflphone-common/configure.ac
index 7a8d3e8f4..676a386c3 100644
--- a/sflphone-common/configure.ac
+++ b/sflphone-common/configure.ac
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ dnl
 
 	dnl Process this file with autoconf to produce a configure script.
 	AC_PREREQ(2.59)
-	AC_INIT([sflphone],[0.9.8~beta],[sflphoneteam@savoirfairelinux.com],[sflphone])
+	AC_INIT([sflphone],[0.9.8~rc1],[sflphoneteam@savoirfairelinux.com],[sflphone])
 	AC_COPYRIGHT([[Copyright (c) Savoir-Faire Linux 2004-2009]])
 AC_REVISION([$Revision$])
 
diff --git a/sflphone-common/src/global.h b/sflphone-common/src/global.h
index 630403fd2..ba3a6c4eb 100644
--- a/sflphone-common/src/global.h
+++ b/sflphone-common/src/global.h
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
 #include <vector>
 #include "logger.h"
 
-#define SFLPHONED_VERSION "0.9.8~beta"		/** Version number */
+#define SFLPHONED_VERSION "0.9.8~rc1"		/** Version number */
 
 #define HOMEDIR					(getenv ("HOME"))				/** Home directory */
 #define XDG_DATA_HOME			(getenv ("XDG_DATA_HOME"))