diff --git a/Doc/Makefile b/Doc/Makefile
index d9cd3949199..22c88f43b7b 100644
--- a/Doc/Makefile
+++ b/Doc/Makefile
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ TOOLSDIR=	tools
 
 # This is the *documentation* release, and is used to construct the file
 # names of the downloadable tarballs.
-RELEASE=2.1c1
+RELEASE=2.1
 
 PYTHON=	   python
 DVIPS=	   dvips -N0 -t $(PAPER)
diff --git a/Doc/texinputs/boilerplate.tex b/Doc/texinputs/boilerplate.tex
index 74c0f22a9cf..e296dbd9573 100644
--- a/Doc/texinputs/boilerplate.tex
+++ b/Doc/texinputs/boilerplate.tex
@@ -5,6 +5,6 @@
 	E-mail: \email{python-docs@python.org}
 }
 
-\date{\today}			% XXX update before release!
-\release{2.1c1}			% software release, not documentation
+\date{April 15, 2001}		% XXX update before release!
+\release{2.1}			% software release, not documentation
 \setshortversion{2.1}		% major.minor only for software