diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index f323d88..4836619 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@ A JDBC driver for [chDB](https://github.com/chdb-io/chdb-core), the embedded bui
 ClickHouse. It runs the engine in your JVM's process — no server, no network — and gives you
 streaming, forward-only result sets over ClickHouse SQL.
 
-> **Status: release candidate.** The first Maven release candidate is `v1.0.0-rc.1`, built with
-> chDB Core `26.7.3`. RC artifacts are available from the public chDB Maven repository; the
+> **Status: release candidate.** The current Maven release candidate is `v1.0.0-rc.2`, built with
+> chDB Core `26.11.0-rc.2`. RC artifacts are available from the public chDB Maven repository; the
 > public API is not frozen. See
 > [What works today](#what-works-today).
 
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ on. The native package pulls in the driver, so declaring it alone is enough.
 <dependency>
   <groupId>com.clickhouse.chdb</groupId>
   <artifactId>chdb-native-linux-x86_64-gnu</artifactId>
-  <version>1.0.0-rc.1</version>
+  <version>1.0.0-rc.2</version>
 </dependency>
 ```
 
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ architecture — declare the driver plus each native package you need:
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.clickhouse.chdb</groupId>
       <artifactId>chdb-bom</artifactId>
-      <version>1.0.0-rc.1</version>
+      <version>1.0.0-rc.2</version>
       <type>pom</type>
       <scope>import</scope>
     </dependency>
diff --git a/docs/v1-progress.md b/docs/v1-progress.md
index f095b04..087c10b 100644
--- a/docs/v1-progress.md
+++ b/docs/v1-progress.md
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ versions can be cut while it is the baseline, and the stable release has to be p
 6 on Linux x86_64.
 
 26.11.0-rc.2 is the same baseline plus chdb-core #312, a pre-release too, so nothing about
-§4.3 changes: the next cut from it is `1.0.0-rc.2`, `1.0.0-rc.1` stays on 26.7.3, and v26.11.1
+§4.3 changes: `1.0.0-rc.2` is cut from it, `1.0.0-rc.1` stays on 26.7.3, and v26.11.1
 has to be pinned before `1.0.0`. The signal-handler fix holds on it too: `measure` reports
 zero and `stress` survives 6 of 6 on Linux x86_64.
 
diff --git a/scripts/engine.properties b/scripts/engine.properties
index b588792..8b11d37 100644
--- a/scripts/engine.properties
+++ b/scripts/engine.properties
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
 # PyPI), pinned to validate the ClickHouse 26.11 baseline ahead of the stable v26.11.1. It is
 # v26.11.0-rc.1 plus chdb-core #312, on the same ClickHouse baseline (26.11.1.1). Work plan
 # section 4.3: a binding built on an engine RC is itself an RC and cannot be V1 GA, so while
-# this is the baseline only -rc.<n> versions may be cut (the next is 1.0.0-rc.2; 1.0.0-rc.1
+# this is the baseline only -rc.<n> versions may be cut (1.0.0-rc.2 is cut from it; 1.0.0-rc.1
 # stays on v26.7.3), and the stable engine has to be re-pinned before 1.0.0. The last stable
 # baseline was v26.7.3.
 #