diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md
index 60961bf38dbac1dfd59927168c3e0dfe0bbd8c4f..bb3ba7cff20f60bec7175e5394e108b367a34fb0 100644
--- a/CHANGES.md
+++ b/CHANGES.md
@@ -1,12 +1,20 @@
-Synapse 1.69.0rc1 (2022-10-04)
+Synapse 1.69.0rc2 (2022-10-06)
 ==============================
 
-
 Please note that legacy Prometheus metric names are now deprecated and will be removed in Synapse 1.73.0.
 Server administrators should update their dashboards and alerting rules to avoid using the deprecated metric names.
 See the [upgrade notes](https://matrix-org.github.io/synapse/v1.69/upgrade.html#upgrading-to-v1690) for more details.
 
 
+Internal Changes
+----------------
+
+- Ensure Synapse v1.69 works with upcoming database changes in v1.70. ([\#14045](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/14045))
+
+
+Synapse 1.69.0rc1 (2022-10-04)
+==============================
+
 Features
 --------
 
diff --git a/changelog.d/14045.misc b/changelog.d/14045.misc
deleted file mode 100644
index 0b0dd8f47aaf3a67cea704327c4d4b573514d8b1..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/changelog.d/14045.misc
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Ensure Synapse v1.69 works with upcoming database changes in v1.70.
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 0f4dd28081ec55c64cd6252eb13cf95486e083fd..5323843b87bdd451cd9b3153abe68440503e3015 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+matrix-synapse-py3 (1.69.0~rc2) stable; urgency=medium
+
+  * New Synapse release 1.69.0rc2.
+
+ -- Synapse Packaging team <packages@matrix.org>  Thu, 06 Oct 2022 10:32:46 +0100
+
 matrix-synapse-py3 (1.69.0~rc1) stable; urgency=medium
 
   * The man page for the hash_password script has been updated to reflect
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index c302cff54e0d2cff489fa3ca24e8d2f97d4f5fdd..da5652bd606a542e52b664edf26da1135e40ea4b 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ manifest-path = "rust/Cargo.toml"
 
 [tool.poetry]
 name = "matrix-synapse"
-version = "1.69.0rc1"
+version = "1.69.0rc2"
 description = "Homeserver for the Matrix decentralised comms protocol"
 authors = ["Matrix.org Team and Contributors <packages@matrix.org>"]
 license = "Apache-2.0"