diff --git a/RELEASE b/RELEASE
index e394ae5..2b26f7d 100644
--- a/RELEASE
+++ b/RELEASE
@@ -1 +1 @@
-2024.01 ===> Sun Jan 28 14:54:15 UTC 2024
+2024.02 ===> Thu Feb 29 23:57:13 UTC 2024
diff --git a/etc/fetch_core.txt b/etc/fetch_core.txt
index 40d6fa3..9bc66fe 100644
--- a/etc/fetch_core.txt
+++ b/etc/fetch_core.txt
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 # These are the version numbers of the core components of Rakudo Star. Change
 # these if you want to create a distribution containing different core
 # component versions.
-moarvm_version=2024.01
-nqp_version=2024.01
-rakudo_version=2024.01
+moarvm_version=2024.02
+nqp_version=2024.02
+rakudo_version=2024.02
 
 # These are the URLs to fetch the sources from. You can use %s in the URLs as a
 # placeholder for the version number, specified above.