diff --git a/ANNOUNCE b/ANNOUNCE
index 967e04a1c3..0587c48df5 100644
--- a/ANNOUNCE
+++ b/ANNOUNCE
@@ -9,6 +9,10 @@ features. However, some crashes have been fixed, and we have made some
 significant improvements to display speed, which will be especially
 noticeable on older or slower systems.
 
+One important bug fixed in this release involves labels in captions
+and some other constructs. These were wrongly \protect'ed in earlier
+versions.
+
 There has been a change (as of 2.4.0) in how the option to use vertical
 space between paragraphs is handled. Previously, LyX simply modified 
 \parskip and \parindent, but this caused various problems (see bug 
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 37e772d129..f11c2a7f7c 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -6,6 +6,10 @@ features. However, some crashes have been fixed, and we have made some
 significant improvements to display speed, which will be especially
 noticeable on older or slower systems.
 
+One important bug fixed in this release involves labels in captions
+and some other constructs. These were wrongly \protect'ed in earlier
+versions.
+
 There has been a change (as of 2.4.0) in how the option to use vertical
 space between paragraphs is handled. Previously, LyX simply modified
 \parskip and \parindent, but this caused various problems (see bug
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 9791f5f8c9..d0075fbd65 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 dnl Process with autoconf to generate configure script   -*- sh -*-
 
-AC_INIT([LyX],[2.4.2],[lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org],[lyx])
+AC_INIT([LyX],[2.4.2-1],[lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org],[lyx])
 AC_PRESERVE_HELP_ORDER
 # Use ISO format only. The frontend needs to parse this
-AC_SUBST(LYX_DATE, ["2024-09-19"])
+AC_SUBST(LYX_DATE, ["2024-09-24"])
 AC_PREREQ([2.65])
 AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR(src/main.cpp)
 AC_CONFIG_HEADERS([config.h])