diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md
index 6066a38c5a7b2d1f5c118a96661d92de72051c8c..54a642e11a17b9861dad51fc97acb568f8641f26 100644
--- a/CHANGES.md
+++ b/CHANGES.md
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+Synapse 1.22.0rc2 (2020-10-26)
+==============================
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- Fix bugs where ephemeral events were not sent to appservices. Broke in v1.22.0rc1. ([\#8648](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8648), [\#8656](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8656))
+- Fix `user_daily_visits` table to not have duplicate rows per user/device due to multiple user agents. Broke in v1.22.0rc1. ([\#8654](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8654))
+
 Synapse 1.22.0rc1 (2020-10-22)
 ==============================
 
diff --git a/changelog.d/8648.bugfix b/changelog.d/8648.bugfix
deleted file mode 100644
index aa71ad0ff2e845f894ead1c1fd5d3df0094dda9b..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/changelog.d/8648.bugfix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Fix a bug introduced in v1.22.0rc1 which would cause ephemeral events to not be sent to appservices.
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/changelog.d/8654.bugfix b/changelog.d/8654.bugfix
deleted file mode 100644
index 91d3265b7f8214fba2d587295e6d0d408274860e..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/changelog.d/8654.bugfix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Fix `user_daily_visits` to not have duplicate rows for UA. Broke in v1.22.0rc1.
diff --git a/changelog.d/8656.bugfix b/changelog.d/8656.bugfix
deleted file mode 100644
index d6415e8282af02a2ab648b4bd210013bb4d5e725..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/changelog.d/8656.bugfix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Fix a bug introduced in v1.22.0rc1 where presence events were not properly passed to application services.
diff --git a/synapse/__init__.py b/synapse/__init__.py
index c9d53e767a1bcb11bfc544073a12a998e3be4046..24a5815447db5c3f66bc045b24a7685df783c810 100644
--- a/synapse/__init__.py
+++ b/synapse/__init__.py
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ try:
 except ImportError:
     pass
 
-__version__ = "1.22.0rc1"
+__version__ = "1.22.0rc2"
 
 if bool(os.environ.get("SYNAPSE_TEST_PATCH_LOG_CONTEXTS", False)):
     # We import here so that we don't have to install a bunch of deps when