Bump version number for rc1.
diff --git a/MANIFEST.in b/MANIFEST.in
index c79182b..152f6e3 100644
--- a/MANIFEST.in
+++ b/MANIFEST.in
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 graft man
 graft tools
 graft packaging
+graft unittests
 
 include contributing.md
 include COPYING
diff --git a/man/meson.1 b/man/meson.1
index bc20e3b..b6fbf69 100644
--- a/man/meson.1
+++ b/man/meson.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.TH MESON "1" "July 2021" "meson 0.59.0" "User Commands"
+.TH MESON "1" "October 2021" "meson 0.60.0" "User Commands"
 .SH NAME
 meson - a high productivity build system
 .SH DESCRIPTION
diff --git a/mesonbuild/coredata.py b/mesonbuild/coredata.py
index 92e878e..0e68cbd 100644
--- a/mesonbuild/coredata.py
+++ b/mesonbuild/coredata.py
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@
     CompilerCheckCacheKey = T.Tuple[T.Tuple[str, ...], str, FileOrString, T.Tuple[str, ...], str]
 
 # Check major_versions_differ() if changing versioning scheme.
-version = '0.59.99'
+version = '0.60.0.rc1'
 backendlist = ['ninja', 'vs', 'vs2010', 'vs2012', 'vs2013', 'vs2015', 'vs2017', 'vs2019', 'xcode']
 
 default_yielding = False