diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-2018.02-rc1, To be released
+2018.02-rc1, Released February 5th, 2018
 
 	The global source-check and per-package <pkg>-source-check
 	targets have been removed.