diff --git a/Makefile.rhelver b/Makefile.rhelver
index 3554f91af..4ef64a680 100644
--- a/Makefile.rhelver
+++ b/Makefile.rhelver
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ RHEL_MINOR = 99
 #
 # Use this spot to avoid future merge conflicts.
 # Do not trim this comment.
-RHEL_RELEASE = 19
+RHEL_RELEASE = 20
 
 #
 # RHEL_REBASE_NUM
diff --git a/kernel.changelog b/kernel.changelog
index c41697d08..aaa31a8b6 100644
--- a/kernel.changelog
+++ b/kernel.changelog
@@ -1,10 +1,14 @@
-* Mon Jan 29 2024 Fedora Kernel Team <kernel-team@fedoraproject.org> [6.8.0-0.rc2.19]
+* Tue Jan 30 2024 Fedora Kernel Team <kernel-team@fedoraproject.org> [6.8.0-0.rc2.861c0981648f.20]
 - Remove separate license tag for libperf (Justin M. Forbes)
 - Don't use upstream bpftool version for Fedora package (Justin M. Forbes)
 - Don't ship libperf.a in libperf-devel (Justin M. Forbes)
 - add libperf packages and enable perf, libperf, tools and bpftool packages (Thorsten Leemhuis)
 Resolves: 
 
+* Tue Jan 30 2024 Fedora Kernel Team <kernel-team@fedoraproject.org> [6.8.0-0.rc2.861c0981648f.19]
+- Linux v6.8.0-0.rc2.861c0981648f
+Resolves: 
+
 * Mon Jan 29 2024 Fedora Kernel Team <kernel-team@fedoraproject.org> [6.8.0-0.rc2.18]
 - Linux v6.8.0-0.rc2
 Resolves: 
diff --git a/kernel.spec b/kernel.spec
index e02588be1..8fb8d7810 100644
--- a/kernel.spec
+++ b/kernel.spec
@@ -163,13 +163,13 @@ Summary: The Linux kernel
 %define specrpmversion 6.8.0
 %define specversion 6.8.0
 %define patchversion 6.8
-%define pkgrelease 0.rc2.19
+%define pkgrelease 0.rc2.20240130git861c0981648f.20
 %define kversion 6
-%define tarfile_release 6.8-rc2
+%define tarfile_release 6.8-rc2-31-g861c0981648f
 # This is needed to do merge window version magic
 %define patchlevel 8
 # This allows pkg_release to have configurable %%{?dist} tag
-%define specrelease 0.rc2.19%{?buildid}%{?dist}
+%define specrelease 0.rc2.20240130git861c0981648f.20%{?buildid}%{?dist}
 # This defines the kabi tarball version
 %define kabiversion 6.8.0
 
@@ -3843,12 +3843,15 @@ fi\
 #
 #
 %changelog
-* Mon Jan 29 2024 Fedora Kernel Team <kernel-team@fedoraproject.org> [6.8.0-0.rc2.19]
+* Tue Jan 30 2024 Fedora Kernel Team <kernel-team@fedoraproject.org> [6.8.0-0.rc2.861c0981648f.20]
 - Remove separate license tag for libperf (Justin M. Forbes)
 - Don't use upstream bpftool version for Fedora package (Justin M. Forbes)
 - Don't ship libperf.a in libperf-devel (Justin M. Forbes)
 - add libperf packages and enable perf, libperf, tools and bpftool packages (Thorsten Leemhuis)
 
+* Tue Jan 30 2024 Fedora Kernel Team <kernel-team@fedoraproject.org> [6.8.0-0.rc2.861c0981648f.19]
+- Linux v6.8.0-0.rc2.861c0981648f
+
 * Mon Jan 29 2024 Fedora Kernel Team <kernel-team@fedoraproject.org> [6.8.0-0.rc2.18]
 - Linux v6.8.0-0.rc2
 
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index 0557a8210..1f0ba5bfa 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 SHA512 (kernel-abi-stablelists-6.6.0.tar.bz2) = 4f917598056dee5e23814621ec96ff2e4a411c8c4ba9d56ecb01b23cb96431825bedbecfcbaac9338efbf5cb21694d85497fa0bf43e7c80d9cd10bc6dd144dbd
 SHA512 (kernel-kabi-dw-6.6.0.tar.bz2) = 19308cd976031d05e18ef7f5d093218acdb89446418bab0cd956ff12cf66369915b9e64bb66fa9f20939428a60e81884fec5be3529c6c7461738d6540d3cc5c6
-SHA512 (linux-6.8-rc2.tar.xz) = 1c341ac15e1d05c5640ddea7916ad59bdedd61d9c421d6cfbba16da0106cd6399163ed36489edae9b12fafa403bf39b784f79a85788edd776fd90238be9341f6
-SHA512 (kernel-abi-stablelists-6.8.0.tar.xz) = 33e4ccafd9ce98b6856b447da6da70e14835df6059de3bd38df8acf279c0cd4f3cafdc7f3efb784d846704c89b5c6222aab7ba3d609dad8dc9ba18b8cfe51aac
-SHA512 (kernel-kabi-dw-6.8.0.tar.xz) = 64b4688e8ad783d580dbb46518c57de60abfe2040b7c84c13f025bc3223a2b9aa3c7fcd705195b28c11dc5dd26d74b080d6857d6392441d3c097a74165f6b332
+SHA512 (linux-6.8-rc2-31-g861c0981648f.tar.xz) = 20202f774064aefe91ef2ab9cb040b522fbb053e08ba51f40a769c48d01aa877fd41a6ebad95248d27e7c8d876882baad5b6726a01fec22b90eb1e507eb07809
+SHA512 (kernel-abi-stablelists-6.8.0.tar.xz) = 71f43cb0bc3cb302120db9008231647f0d2e2e0223747d78694734e7ed3cc2feb7ee04399f39c3407fbc8f93452c1ba5ec4ea52c17e74a82de64e947c4ddacc2
+SHA512 (kernel-kabi-dw-6.8.0.tar.xz) = 3c86daa6f057e40d1c7145caf3592c29f5606dc2c5496b507cc4a78daf1064ae48d6fc09a84521870d51784c686871b11d9928df8d5671429d99c79bf7edea85