diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.38.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.38.2.txt
index 086b900f6c..92acb62bbb 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.38.2.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.38.2.txt
@@ -57,4 +57,11 @@ Fixes since v2.38.1
  * "git branch --edit-description" on an unborh branch misleadingly
    said that no such branch exists, which has been corrected.
 
+ * GitHub CI settings have been adjusted to recent reality, merging
+   and cherry-picking necessary topics that have been prepared for Git
+   2.39.
+
+ * `git rebase --update-refs` would delete references when all `update-ref`
+   commands in the sequencer were removed, which has been corrected.
+
 Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
diff --git a/GIT-VERSION-GEN b/GIT-VERSION-GEN
index 024cbd635e..bc58932dc1 100755
--- a/GIT-VERSION-GEN
+++ b/GIT-VERSION-GEN
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 
 GVF=GIT-VERSION-FILE
-DEF_VER=v2.38.1
+DEF_VER=v2.38.2
 
 LF='
 '