diff --git a/docs/topics/release-notes.md b/docs/topics/release-notes.md
index df66cb35e..42b1d8da2 100644
--- a/docs/topics/release-notes.md
+++ b/docs/topics/release-notes.md
@@ -40,7 +40,9 @@ You can determine your currently installed version using `pip freeze`:
 
 ## 2.2.x series
 
-### Master
+### 2.2.2
+
+**Date**: 6th March 2013
 
 * Support for custom input and output formats for `DateField`, `DateTimeField` and `TimeField`.
 * Cleanup: Request authentication is no longer lazily evaluated, instead authentication is always run, which results in more consistent, obvious behavior.  Eg. Supplying bad auth credentials will now always return an error response, even if no permissions are set on the view.
diff --git a/rest_framework/__init__.py b/rest_framework/__init__.py
index 14ab7ff02..2180c509a 100644
--- a/rest_framework/__init__.py
+++ b/rest_framework/__init__.py
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
-__version__ = '2.2.1'
+__version__ = '2.2.2'
 
 VERSION = __version__  # synonym
 
 # Header encoding (see RFC5987)
 HTTP_HEADER_ENCODING = 'iso-8859-1'
 
-# Default input and output format
+# Default datetime input and output formats
 ISO_8601 = 'iso-8601'