From 38f6d759a2d27215d4ace68b49e3c39c5db818e4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: notmgsk <notmgsk@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2023 14:05:00 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] chore: prepare release 4.0.2-rc.0 [skip ci]

---
 CHANGELOG.md   | 6 ++++++
 pyproject.toml | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 29e5757cc..d17972553 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,11 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## 4.0.2-rc.0 (2023-10-16)
+
+### Fixes
+
+#### update qcs-sdk-rust and quil-rs to pull in fixes (#1680)
+
 ## 4.0.1 (2023-09-27)
 
 ### Fixes
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 3d03adc04..8d1389017 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [tool.poetry]
 name = "pyquil"
-version = "4.0.1"
+version = "4.0.2-rc.0"
 description = "A Python library for creating Quantum Instruction Language (Quil) programs."
 authors = ["Rigetti Computing <softapps@rigetti.com>"]
 readme = "README.md"