diff --git a/.zenodo.json b/.zenodo.json
index 9bf8ff1a686..e1a7a8c9243 100644
--- a/.zenodo.json
+++ b/.zenodo.json
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 {
     "description": "Mirror of the Sage https://sagemath.org/ source tree", 
     "license": "other-open", 
-    "title": "sagemath/sage: 9.6.beta1", 
-    "version": "9.6.beta1", 
+    "title": "sagemath/sage: 9.6.beta2", 
+    "version": "9.6.beta2", 
     "upload_type": "software", 
-    "publication_date": "2022-02-13", 
+    "publication_date": "2022-02-20", 
     "creators": [
         {
             "affiliation": "SageMath.org", 
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
     "related_identifiers": [
         {
             "scheme": "url", 
-            "identifier": "https://github.com/sagemath/sage/tree/9.6.beta1", 
+            "identifier": "https://github.com/sagemath/sage/tree/9.6.beta2", 
             "relation": "isSupplementTo"
         }, 
         {
diff --git a/VERSION.txt b/VERSION.txt
index 75735813865..913b75b0687 100644
--- a/VERSION.txt
+++ b/VERSION.txt
@@ -1 +1 @@
-SageMath version 9.6.beta1, Release Date: 2022-02-13
+SageMath version 9.6.beta2, Release Date: 2022-02-20
diff --git a/build/pkgs/configure/checksums.ini b/build/pkgs/configure/checksums.ini
index e5d814cbd14..74481127a93 100644
--- a/build/pkgs/configure/checksums.ini
+++ b/build/pkgs/configure/checksums.ini
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 tarball=configure-VERSION.tar.gz
-sha1=f2925e1cb7d641b26aa56138dc5b683f862e9530
-md5=ec87ab8656a4c0933505c98e6a8ecf36
-cksum=2881191558
+sha1=65f1a39a45c760e69b64978203a4d03d8cfbb442
+md5=15548f7e539f20b63143cb88f0b93c5e
+cksum=3853290483
diff --git a/build/pkgs/configure/package-version.txt b/build/pkgs/configure/package-version.txt
index 12a1a710cf7..87eb74f8dc0 100644
--- a/build/pkgs/configure/package-version.txt
+++ b/build/pkgs/configure/package-version.txt
@@ -1 +1 @@
-38605e0843b3c518b8c0917a1e52bb6e73ed1d5f
+27c056c587e4d655df5b0e95ea0e209769d2e1d4
diff --git a/build/pkgs/sagelib/package-version.txt b/build/pkgs/sagelib/package-version.txt
index 5faace0c2a4..48c917b8d10 100644
--- a/build/pkgs/sagelib/package-version.txt
+++ b/build/pkgs/sagelib/package-version.txt
@@ -1 +1 @@
-9.6.beta1
+9.6.beta2
diff --git a/src/VERSION.txt b/src/VERSION.txt
index 5faace0c2a4..48c917b8d10 100644
--- a/src/VERSION.txt
+++ b/src/VERSION.txt
@@ -1 +1 @@
-9.6.beta1
+9.6.beta2
diff --git a/src/bin/sage-version.sh b/src/bin/sage-version.sh
index 63794e57060..a4927becc5c 100644
--- a/src/bin/sage-version.sh
+++ b/src/bin/sage-version.sh
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # Sage version information for shell scripts
 # This file is auto-generated by the sage-update-version script, do not edit!
-SAGE_VERSION='9.6.beta1'
-SAGE_RELEASE_DATE='2022-02-13'
-SAGE_VERSION_BANNER='SageMath version 9.6.beta1, Release Date: 2022-02-13'
+SAGE_VERSION='9.6.beta2'
+SAGE_RELEASE_DATE='2022-02-20'
+SAGE_VERSION_BANNER='SageMath version 9.6.beta2, Release Date: 2022-02-20'
diff --git a/src/sage/version.py b/src/sage/version.py
index a4a1de6a819..8977138d486 100644
--- a/src/sage/version.py
+++ b/src/sage/version.py
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # Sage version information for Python scripts
 # This file is auto-generated by the sage-update-version script, do not edit!
-version = '9.6.beta1'
-date = '2022-02-13'
-banner = 'SageMath version 9.6.beta1, Release Date: 2022-02-13'
+version = '9.6.beta2'
+date = '2022-02-20'
+banner = 'SageMath version 9.6.beta2, Release Date: 2022-02-20'