diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 2658ffec..271677bc 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ default-members = [
 [package]
 name = "ort"
 description = "A safe Rust wrapper for ONNX Runtime 1.17 - Optimize and Accelerate Machine Learning Inferencing"
-version = "2.0.0-rc.0"
+version = "2.0.0-rc.1"
 edition = "2021"
 rust-version = "1.70"
 license = "MIT OR Apache-2.0"
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ qnn = [ "ort-sys/qnn" ]
 [dependencies]
 ndarray = { version = "0.15", optional = true }
 thiserror = "1.0"
-ort-sys = { version = "2.0.0-alpha.4", path = "ort-sys" }
+ort-sys = { version = "2.0.0-rc.1", path = "ort-sys" }
 libloading = { version = "0.8", optional = true }
 
 ureq = { version = "2.1", optional = true, default-features = false, features = [ "tls" ] }
diff --git a/docs/introduction.mdx b/docs/introduction.mdx
index 863ef8e6..d293a41c 100644
--- a/docs/introduction.mdx
+++ b/docs/introduction.mdx
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ title: Introduction
 `ort` makes it easy to deploy your machine learning models to production via [ONNX Runtime](https://onnxruntime.ai/), a hardware-accelerated inference engine. With `ort` + ONNX Runtime, you can run almost any ML model (including ResNet, YOLOv8, BERT, LLaMA) on almost any hardware, often far faster than PyTorch, and with the added bonus of Rust's efficiency.
 
 <Warning>
-    These docs are for the latest alpha version of `ort`, `2.0.0-rc.0`. This version is production-ready (just not API stable) and we recommend new & existing projects use it.
+    These docs are for the latest alpha version of `ort`, `2.0.0-rc.1`. This version is production-ready (just not API stable) and we recommend new & existing projects use it.
 </Warning>
 
 # Why `ort`?
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ For one, `ort` simply supports more features:
 
 | Feature comparison        | **📕 ort** | **📗 [ors](https://github.com/HaoboGu/ors)** | **🪟 [onnxruntime-rs](https://github.com/microsoft/onnxruntime/tree/main/rust)** |
 |---------------------------|-----------|-----------|----------------------|
-| Upstream version          | **v1.17.0** | v1.12.0 | v1.8               |
+| Upstream version          | **v1.17.1** | v1.12.0 | v1.8               |
 | `dlopen()`?               | ✅         | ✅         | ❌                    |
 | Execution providers?      | ✅         | ❌         | ❌                    |
 | I/O Binding?              | ✅         | ❌         | ❌                    |
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ Users of `ort` appreciate its ease of use and ergonomic API. `ort` is also battl
         If you have a [supported platform](/setup/platforms) (and you probably do), installing `ort` couldn't be any simpler! Just add it to your Cargo dependencies:
         ```toml
         [dependencies]
-        ort = "2.0.0-alpha.4"
+        ort = "2.0.0-rc.1"
         ```
     </Step>
     <Step title="Convert your model">
diff --git a/ort-sys/Cargo.toml b/ort-sys/Cargo.toml
index 32f6f6da..ad736bd3 100644
--- a/ort-sys/Cargo.toml
+++ b/ort-sys/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 [package]
 name = "ort-sys"
 description = "Unsafe Rust bindings for ONNX Runtime 1.17 - Optimize and Accelerate Machine Learning Inferencing"
-version = "2.0.0-rc.0"
+version = "2.0.0-rc.1"
 edition = "2021"
 rust-version = "1.70"
 license = "MIT OR Apache-2.0"