Prep for 2.20.0-rc1

Author: cowtowncoder

pom.xml

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
   <parent>
     <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson</groupId>
     <artifactId>jackson-base</artifactId>
-    <version>2.20.0-rc1-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>2.20.0-rc1</version>
   </parent>
   <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.datatype</groupId>
   <artifactId>jackson-datatypes-collections</artifactId>

release-notes/VERSION-2.x

@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ Active Maintainers:
 === Releases ===
 ------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-2.20.0 (not yet released)
+2.20.0-rc1 (04-Aug-2025)
 
 #190: Add unit tests to verify goodness of SPI metadata for Modules
 - Generate SBOMs [JSTEP-14]