diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 11eccf8cb7..d05e633a78 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 dnl Process with autoconf to generate configure script   -*- sh -*-
 
-AC_INIT([LyX],[2.4.1],[lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org],[lyx])
+AC_INIT([LyX],[2.4.2~devel],[lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org],[lyx])
 AC_PRESERVE_HELP_ORDER
 # Use ISO format only. The frontend needs to parse this
-AC_SUBST(LYX_DATE, ["2024-07-01"])
+AC_SUBST(LYX_DATE, ["2024-07-02"])
 AC_PREREQ([2.65])
 AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR(src/main.cpp)
 AC_CONFIG_HEADERS([config.h])
diff --git a/status.24x b/status.24x
index 172aaf494e..0cd34af3ad 100644
--- a/status.24x
+++ b/status.24x
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 -*- text -*-
 
-This file describes what has been done in the preparation of LyX 2.4.1.
+This file describes what has been done in the preparation of LyX 2.4.2.
 All comments are welcome.
 
 We try to group things by topic and in decreasing order of importance.
@@ -27,38 +27,15 @@ What's new
 
 * USER INTERFACE
 
-- Add plain single quote to menu (bug 13025).
 
-- In context menus, more items are now shown on top level.
-
-- Show full inset context-menu when clicking on text part of collapsible
-  (bug 10370).
-
-- Allow relative statistics values in statusbar, improve update times for
-  some UI and buffer operations.
-
-- The performance of LyX with large insets on slower computers has
-  been improved a lot (bug 12297).
-
-- Fix crash with variable column width tables.
-
-- Add bindings for 'paste, join lines'.
-
-- middle-button pasting (in Linux) now preserves middle-button pasting
-  (as does Edit > Paste since 2.4.0).
 
 * DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION
 
-- Clarify quote-insert LFUN.
-
-- Updates to Chinese (simplified), Czech, French, German, Hebrew, 
-  Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, Slovak, and Ukranian translations.
 
 
 * BUILD/INSTALLATION
 
-- Fix cmake build with qt6 (macos), which did not include
-  "plugins".
+
 
 
 ** Bug fixes:
@@ -66,73 +43,20 @@ What's new
 
 * DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT
 
-- Set cursor font after pasting to PassThru (e.g., ERT) inset (bug 12592).
-
-- The g-brief and g-brief2 letter classes load babel internally. LyX now
-  is aware of that.
-
-- Fix some cases where beamer breaks with the new cprotect mechanism.
-
-- Fix case where new cprotect mechanism breaks with caption.
-
-- Update acknowledgments handling in aastex63 layout 
-  (cf. https://journals.aas.org/aastexguide/#acknowledgments)
-
-- Make textstyle-update LFUN work properly inside equations.
-
-- Make buffer-reset-export LFUN work properly.
-
-- Remove redundant code from preamble of double column Hebrew documents (bug 12919)
 
 
 * USER INTERFACE
 
-- Fix crash when deleting rows or columns from table.
-
-- Fix wrong position of conversion windows of the input method (bugs 11723,
-  13054).
-
-- Speed up mouse movement when there is no selection (part of bug
-  13050).
-
-- Fix incorrect scrolling when using outline to jump to a paragraph (bug 10425).
-
-- Fix preview inset with XeTeX, and with RTL languages in general.
-
-- Respect change tracking in dash conversion mechanism (bug 13062).
-
-- The outliner option "Only output items" now works properly (bug 12981).
-
-- Show values of cross-references in tooltips (bug 8856).
-
-- Toolbars are now locked by default for new profiles (bug 11796).
-
-- Allow "longest label" to be empty (bug 11934).
-
-- Put new citation after selected item rather than at end of list (bug 12940).
-
-- fix overflow of appendix red frame in document-bottom grey area.
 
 
 * INTERNALS
 
-- Fix case where insets do not have proper information about current buffer
-  (bug 12682).
-
-- Handle deprecated Qt enum value.
-
-- Fix initialization of an internal value.
-
-- Fix "Unassigned buffer_" error with math references (bug 12947).
-
-- Re-allow the use of quoted argument to PackageOptions layout tag.
-
-- Fix crash when passing unknown value to textstyle-update
 
 
 * DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION
 
 
+
 * LYX2LYX
 
 
@@ -147,12 +71,8 @@ What's new
 
 * ADVANCED FIND AND REPLACE
 
-- Handle neg-spaces like normal space if searching without format.
-
-- No paragraph indentation in search and replace windows (bug 11555).
 
 
 * BUILD/INSTALLATION
 
-- Cmake build: Handle deprecated cmake versions.