diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index c976f4efa..25f2deb64 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-linux (4.8~rc5-1~exp1) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
+linux (4.8~rc5-1~exp1) experimental; urgency=medium
 
   * New upstream release candidate
 
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ linux (4.8~rc5-1~exp1) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
     - Install files from both HTML output directories into the package
     - Exclude RST sources from the package
 
- -- Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>  Sun, 28 Aug 2016 19:01:59 +0100
+ -- Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>  Wed, 07 Sep 2016 21:52:47 +0100
 
 linux (4.7.2-1) unstable; urgency=medium