diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 1c8d3e3..4ea9080 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 		Set the date
 		Append the short log
 
-		git-log --pretty=short 2.4.xx | git-shortlog
+		git-log --pretty=short 2.4.xx.. | git-shortlog
 		
  3.	Commit those changes
  
diff --git a/README b/README
index 2c2fe0a..6bc94f2 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -1,12 +1,44 @@
 			Fontconfig
 	Font configuration and customization library
-		      Version 2.4.1
-		        2006-09-15
+		      Version 2.4.2
+		        2006-12-02
 
 
 Check INSTALL for compilation and installation instructions.
 Report bugs to https://bugs.freedesktop.org in the fontconfig module.
 
+2.4.2
+
+Han-Wen Nienhuys:
+      FcStrCanonFileName buggy for mingw. (bug 8311)
+      More fixes for Win32 building (bug 8311)
+
+Kean Johnston:
+      Don't use varargs CPP macros in fccache.c. (bug 8733)
+
+Keith Packard:
+      Remove documentation for non-existant FcConfigNormalizeFontDir.
+      Build fontconfig.def from header files when needed.
+      Detect and use available random number generator (bug 8308)
+      Add sparc64 architecture string.
+      FcStrCanonAbsoluteFilename should be static.
+      Use explicit platform/nameid order when scanning ttf files.
+      Warn (and recover) from config file without <cachedir> elements.
+      Avoid writing uninitialized structure pad bytes to cache files.
+      Fix grep pattern in makealias to work on non-Gnu grep (bug 8368).
+      Add FcFreeTypeQueryFace external API. Bug #7311.
+      Segfault scanning non-font files. Disallow scan edit of user vars. (#8767)
+      Add space between type and formal in devel man pages (bug 8935)
+
+Mike FABIAN:
+      Do not clean cache files for different architectures
+
+Peter Breitenlohner:
+      A VPATH build of fontconfig-2.4.1 fails for various reasons. Bug 8933.
+      Use <literal> instead of <sgmltag> when documenting fonts.conf. Bug 8935.
+      Fix fc-cat documentation (bug 8935).
+
+
 2.4.1
 
 Keith Packard:
diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index ef37acd..5e3392f 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
 dnl version.  This same version number must appear in fontconfig/fontconfig.h
 dnl Yes, it is a pain to synchronize version numbers.  Unfortunately, it's
 dnl not possible to extract the version number here from fontconfig.h
-AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(fontconfig, 2.4.1)
+AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(fontconfig, 2.4.2)
 AM_MAINTAINER_MODE
 
 dnl libtool versioning
diff --git a/fontconfig/fontconfig.h b/fontconfig/fontconfig.h
index 26412a3..f055cdb 100644
--- a/fontconfig/fontconfig.h
+++ b/fontconfig/fontconfig.h
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@
 
 #define FC_MAJOR	2
 #define FC_MINOR	4
-#define FC_REVISION	1
+#define FC_REVISION	2
 
 #define FC_VERSION	((FC_MAJOR * 10000) + (FC_MINOR * 100) + (FC_REVISION))