Version bump for 3.4.6rc1.
diff --git a/Include/patchlevel.h b/Include/patchlevel.h
index fb792a1..9aa6c4e 100644
--- a/Include/patchlevel.h
+++ b/Include/patchlevel.h
@@ -18,12 +18,12 @@
/*--start constants--*/
#define PY_MAJOR_VERSION 3
#define PY_MINOR_VERSION 4
-#define PY_MICRO_VERSION 5
-#define PY_RELEASE_LEVEL PY_RELEASE_LEVEL_FINAL
-#define PY_RELEASE_SERIAL 0
+#define PY_MICRO_VERSION 6
+#define PY_RELEASE_LEVEL PY_RELEASE_LEVEL_GAMMA
+#define PY_RELEASE_SERIAL 1
/* Version as a string */
-#define PY_VERSION "3.4.5+"
+#define PY_VERSION "3.4.6rc1"
/*--end constants--*/
/* Version as a single 4-byte hex number, e.g. 0x010502B2 == 1.5.2b2.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 39ca049..211de47 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
What's New in Python 3.4.6rc1?
==============================
-Release date: TBA
+Release date: 2017-01-02
Core and Builtins
-----------------
diff --git a/README b/README
index 6c98ef1..eca5a28 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-This is Python version 3.4.5
-============================
+This is Python version 3.4.6 release candidate 1
+================================================
Copyright (c) 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011,
2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 Python Software Foundation. All rights
