diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 8659222e49..9120c3e82a 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ included in the vX.Y.Z section and be denoted as:
    (** also appeared: A.B.C)  -- indicating that this item was previously
                                  included in release version vA.B.C.
 
-4.1.0 -- November, 2020
+4.1.0 -- December, 2020
 -----------------------
 
 - collectives: Add HAN and ADAPT adaptive collectives components.
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ included in the vX.Y.Z section and be denoted as:
 - Updates to mpirun(1) about "slots" and PE=x values.
 - Fix buffer allocation for large environment variables.  Thanks to
   @zrss for reporting the issue.
-- Upgrade the embedded OpenPMIx to v3.2.1.
+- Upgrade the embedded OpenPMIx to v3.2.2.
 - Take more steps towards creating fully Reproducible builds (see
   https://reproducible-builds.org/).  Thanks Bernhard M. Wiedemann for
   bringing this to our attention.
@@ -80,6 +80,7 @@ included in the vX.Y.Z section and be denoted as:
   user @zrss for bringing the issue to our attention.
 - UCX: Fix zero-sized datatype transfers.
 - Fix --cpu-list for non-uniform modes.
+- Fix issue in PMIx callback caused by missing memory barrier on Arm platforms.
 - OFI MTL: Various bug fixes.
 - Fixed issue where MPI_TYPE_CREATE_RESIZED would create a datatype
   with unexpected extent on oddly-aligned datatypes.
@@ -89,7 +90,9 @@ included in the vX.Y.Z section and be denoted as:
 - Portals4: Clean up error handling corner cases
 - runtime: Remove --enable-install-libpmix option, which has not
   worked since it was added
+- opal: Disable memory patcher component on MacOS
 - UCX: Allow UCX 1.8 to be used with the btl uct
+- UCX: Replace usage of the deprecated NB API of UCX with NBX
 - OMPIO: Add support for the IME file system
 - OFI/libfabric: Added support for multiple NICs
 - OFI/libfabric: Added support for Scalable Endpoints
diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index ac35aeb352..0d8dd540b4 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ release=0
 # requirement is that it must be entirely printable ASCII characters
 # and have no white space.
 
-greek=rc4
+greek=rc5
 
 # If repo_rev is empty, then the repository version number will be
 # obtained during "make dist" via the "git describe --tags --always"