diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 17922ad650..65fc88d475 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -1,3 +1,24 @@
+2025.11-rc2, released November 30th, 2025
+
+	Fixes all over the tree.
+
+	Infrastructure: support/scripts/check-merged (introduced in
+	2025.11-rc1) no longer relies on getopt from util-linux
+
+	Defconfigs: pine64 star: Update U-Boot and Linux kernel to fix
+	builds with GCC 14.x
+
+	Updated/fixed packages: 18xx-ti-utils, depot-tools, e2fsprogs,
+	enscript, fio, gnutls, intel-mediadriver, intel-vpl-gpu-rt,
+	ledmon, libpng, libteam, lmbench, mongoose, netsnmp,
+	nss-pam-ldapd, open-plc-utils, oprofile, pdmenu, php-apcu,
+	php-pecl-dbus, php-xdebug, php-yaml, python-flask-restx,
+	python-pysocks, python-starlette, sane-backends, sbc, sdl,
+	stress-ng, swipl, syslinux, time, tmux, tor, uboot-tools,
+	woff2, xfsprogs, yaml-cpp
+
+	Removed packages: libargtable2, starfive-spltool
+
 2025.11-rc1, released November 20th, 2025
 
 	Fixes all over the tree and new features.
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index d1d1c88943..499284c256 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -92,9 +92,9 @@ all:
 .PHONY: all
 
 # Set and export the version string
-export BR2_VERSION := 2025.11-rc1
+export BR2_VERSION := 2025.11-rc2
 # Actual time the release is cut (for reproducible builds)
-BR2_VERSION_EPOCH = 1763670000
+BR2_VERSION_EPOCH = 1764530000
 
 # Save running make version since it's clobbered by the make package
 RUNNING_MAKE_VERSION := $(MAKE_VERSION)
diff --git a/docs/website/download.html b/docs/website/download.html
index 0d7bc6a017..6aa1cdfa2b 100644
--- a/docs/website/download.html
+++ b/docs/website/download.html
@@ -21,25 +21,25 @@
           <th>2025.11.x</th>
           <td>March 2026</td>
           <td>
-            2025.11-rc1<br/>
-            <a href="https://gitlab.com/buildroot.org/buildroot/-/blob/2025.11-rc1/CHANGES">
+            2025.11-rc2<br/>
+            <a href="https://gitlab.com/buildroot.org/buildroot/-/blob/2025.11-rc2/CHANGES">
               Changelog
             </a>
           </td>
           <td>2025-11-20</td>
           <td>
-            <a href="/downloads/buildroot-2025.11-rc1.tar.gz">
+            <a href="/downloads/buildroot-2025.11-rc2.tar.gz">
               <img src="images/zip.png" width="24" alt="">
               .tar.gz
             </a><br/>
-            <a href="/downloads/buildroot-2025.11-rc1.tar.gz.sign">[PGP sig]</a>
+            <a href="/downloads/buildroot-2025.11-rc2.tar.gz.sign">[PGP sig]</a>
           </td>
           <td>
-            <a href="/downloads/buildroot-2025.11-rc1.tar.xz">
+            <a href="/downloads/buildroot-2025.11-rc2.tar.xz">
               <img src="images/package.png" width="24" alt="">
               .tar.xz
             </a><br/>
-            <a href="/downloads/buildroot-2025.11-rc1.tar.xz.sign">[PGP sig]</a>
+            <a href="/downloads/buildroot-2025.11-rc2.tar.xz.sign">[PGP sig]</a>
           </td>
         </tr>
         <tr>
diff --git a/docs/website/news.html b/docs/website/news.html
index e6dbe51428..dac3185270 100644
--- a/docs/website/news.html
+++ b/docs/website/news.html
@@ -9,6 +9,27 @@
 <h2>News</h2>
 <ul class="timeline">
 
+  <li>
+    <div class="timeline-badge"><i class="glyphicon glyphicon-thumbs-up"></i></div>
+    <div class="timeline-panel">
+      <div class="timeline-heading">
+	<h4 class="timeline-title">2025.11-rc2 released</h4>
+	<p><small class="text-muted"><i class="glyphicon glyphicon-time"></i>30 November 2025</small></p>
+      </div>
+      <div class="timeline-body">
+        <p>Another week, another release candidate with more cleanups and build fixes. See the
+	  <a href="https://gitlab.com/buildroot.org/buildroot/-/blob/2025.11-rc2/CHANGES">CHANGES</a>
+	  file for more details.</p>
+
+	<p>Go to the <a href="/downloads/">downloads page</a> to pick up the
+	  <a href="/downloads/buildroot-2025.11-rc2.tar.xz">2025.11-rc2
+	  release</a>, and report any problems found to the
+         <a href="support.html">mailing list</a> or
+         <a href="https://gitlab.com/buildroot.org/buildroot/-/issues">bug tracker</a>.</p>
+      </div>
+    </div>
+  </li>
+
   <li class="timeline-inverted">
     <div class="timeline-badge"><i class="glyphicon glyphicon-thumbs-up"></i></div>
     <div class="timeline-panel">