diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 9c62b88..96b58d0 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 /qttools-opensource-src-5.3.2.tar.xz
 /qttools-opensource-src-5.4.0-beta.tar.xz
+/qttools-opensource-src-5.4.0-rc.tar.xz
diff --git a/qt5-qttools.spec b/qt5-qttools.spec
index 5bf433a..ef4999b 100644
--- a/qt5-qttools.spec
+++ b/qt5-qttools.spec
@@ -14,12 +14,12 @@
 %endif
 %endif
 
-%define pre beta
+%define pre rc
 
 Summary: Qt5 - QtTool components
 Name:    qt5-qttools
 Version: 5.4.0
-Release: 0.7.%{pre}%{?dist}
+Release: 0.8.%{pre}%{?dist}
 
 # See LGPL_EXCEPTIONS.txt, LICENSE.GPL3, respectively, for exception details
 License: LGPLv2 with exceptions or GPLv3 with exceptions
@@ -426,6 +426,9 @@ fi
 
 
 %changelog
+* Fri Nov 28 2014 Rex Dieter <rdieter@fedoraproject.org> 5.4.0-0.8.rc
+- 5.4.0-rc
+
 * Mon Nov 03 2014 Rex Dieter <rdieter@fedoraproject.org> 5.4.0-0.7.beta
 - out-of-tree build, use %%qmake_qt5
 
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index d57abee..5443983 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-1e1e24d14ccf9eb06dfb539e7c0f8a3d  qttools-opensource-src-5.4.0-beta.tar.xz
+bd03f61819fa88ae2fac49971124bf6d  qttools-opensource-src-5.4.0-rc.tar.xz