diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.54.0.adoc b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.54.0.adoc
index 85b15284f3b958..4ce30d9d5b1bcb 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.54.0.adoc
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.54.0.adoc
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
 
  * Improve set-up time of a perf test.
 
- * ISO C23 redefines strchr and friends that tradiotionally took
+ * ISO C23 redefines strchr and friends that traditionally took
    a const pointer and returned a non-const pointer derived from it to
    preserve constness (i.e., if you ask for a substring in a const
    string, you get a const pointer to the substring).  Update code
@@ -221,7 +221,7 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
    many source files inside subdirectories unaffected, which has been
    corrected.
 
- * The run_command() API lost its implicit dependencyon the singleton
+ * The run_command() API lost its implicit dependency on the singleton
    `the_repository` instance.
 
  * The unit test helper function was taught to use backslash +
diff --git a/GIT-VERSION-GEN b/GIT-VERSION-GEN
index 44240e07b881f0..92ea811ae67b6d 100755
--- a/GIT-VERSION-GEN
+++ b/GIT-VERSION-GEN
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 
-DEF_VER=v2.53.GIT
+DEF_VER=v2.54.0-rc0
 
 LF='
 '