Update in preparation for 14.2-RELEASErelease/14.2.0

- Bump BRANCH to RELEASE
- Add the anticipated RELEASE announcement date
- Set a static __FreeBSD_version

Approved by:	re (implicit)
Sponsored by:	Amazon

3 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/UPDATING b/UPDATING
index e8ce65692e6b..3a644b8feaf2 100644
--- a/UPDATING
+++ b/UPDATING
@@ -12,6 +12,9 @@ Items affecting the ports and packages system can be found in
 /usr/ports/UPDATING.  Please read that file before updating system packages
 and/or ports.
 
+20241203:
+	14.2-RELEASE.
+
 20240419:
 	Clang, llvm, lld, lldb, compiler-rt, libc++, libunwind and openmp have
 	been upgraded to 18.1.6. It is important that you run `make delete-old`
diff --git a/lib/csu/common/crtbrand.S b/lib/csu/common/crtbrand.S
index b59e2fd8056b..7d14d0c1df65 100644
--- a/lib/csu/common/crtbrand.S
+++ b/lib/csu/common/crtbrand.S
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
 	.4byte		NT_FREEBSD_ABI_TAG
 1:	.asciz		NOTE_FREEBSD_VENDOR
 2:	.p2align	2
-3:	.4byte		__FreeBSD_version
+3:	.4byte		1402000
 4:
 
 	.section .note.GNU-stack,"",%progbits
diff --git a/sys/conf/newvers.sh b/sys/conf/newvers.sh
index af5875c5c0b3..8afaa8ccd571 100644
--- a/sys/conf/newvers.sh
+++ b/sys/conf/newvers.sh
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@
 
 TYPE="FreeBSD"
 REVISION="14.2"
-BRANCH="RC1"
+BRANCH="RELEASE"
 if [ -n "${BRANCH_OVERRIDE}" ]; then
 	BRANCH=${BRANCH_OVERRIDE}
 fi