diff --git a/man/meson.1 b/man/meson.1
index 2054afa3b..d2c645374 100644
--- a/man/meson.1
+++ b/man/meson.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.TH MESON "1" "July 2020" "meson 0.55.0" "User Commands"
+.TH MESON "1" "October 2020" "meson 0.56.0" "User Commands"
 .SH NAME
 meson - a high productivity build system
 .SH DESCRIPTION
diff --git a/mesonbuild/coredata.py b/mesonbuild/coredata.py
index d5d90f987..dd4590792 100644
--- a/mesonbuild/coredata.py
+++ b/mesonbuild/coredata.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyrighs 2012-2019 The Meson development team
+# Copyrigh 2012-2020 The Meson development team
 
 # Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 # you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ if T.TYPE_CHECKING:
     OptionDictType = T.Union[T.Dict[str, 'UserOption[T.Any]'], OptionOverrideProxy]
     CompilerCheckCacheKey = T.Tuple[T.Tuple[str, ...], str, str, T.Tuple[str, ...], str]
 
-version = '0.55.999'
+version = '0.56.0.rc1'
 backendlist = ['ninja', 'vs', 'vs2010', 'vs2015', 'vs2017', 'vs2019', 'xcode']
 
 default_yielding = False