diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 2efc93d..70e7e13 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -48,11 +48,11 @@
       <qbit.noticesDirectory>${project.basedir}</qbit.noticesDirectory>
 
       <!-- use revision property in children -->
-      <revision>2.2.0</revision>
+      <revision>2.2.0-RC.1</revision>
       <!-- QQQ line every qbit builds against (Gitea registry); children may override. -->
       <qqq.version>4.1.0-RC.25</qqq.version>
       <!-- Do not use revision here: children override it with their own version. -->
-      <qbit.guardrails.version>2.1.0</qbit.guardrails.version>
+      <qbit.guardrails.version>2.2.1</qbit.guardrails.version>
       <qbit.guardrails.enforce>false</qbit.guardrails.enforce>
       <qbit.guardrails.allowedQbitArtifacts>com.kingsrook.qbits:qbit-object-storage,com.kingsrook.qbits:qbit-email,com.kingsrook.qbits:*-api</qbit.guardrails.allowedQbitArtifacts>
       <qbit.guardrails.allowedApiPackages>com.kingsrook.qbits.objectstorage.api,com.kingsrook.qbits.email.api,com.kingsrook.qbits.assistant.spi</qbit.guardrails.allowedApiPackages>
diff --git a/qbit-guardrails/pom.xml b/qbit-guardrails/pom.xml
index 088954e..fe01dfc 100644
--- a/qbit-guardrails/pom.xml
+++ b/qbit-guardrails/pom.xml
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
       </developer>
    </developers>
    <properties>
-      <revision>2.1.0</revision>
+      <revision>2.2.0-RC.1</revision>
       <maven.compiler.release>21</maven.compiler.release>
       <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
       <project.reporting.outputEncoding>UTF-8</project.reporting.outputEncoding>