diff --git a/doc/doxygen/Doxyfile b/doc/doxygen/Doxyfile
index 8b3a97816baa5ac80bb96c22edd3f159a4c9d5ff..a3ccf9227d3d6944797cd1c5767a86298be6865f 100644
--- a/doc/doxygen/Doxyfile
+++ b/doc/doxygen/Doxyfile
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ PROJECT_NAME           = Blender
 # could be handy for archiving the generated documentation or if some version
 # control system is used.
 
-PROJECT_NUMBER         = "V2.8x"
+PROJECT_NUMBER         = "V2.79"
 
 # Using the PROJECT_BRIEF tag one can provide an optional one line description
 # for a project that appears at the top of each page and should give viewer a
diff --git a/source/blender/blenkernel/BKE_blender_version.h b/source/blender/blenkernel/BKE_blender_version.h
index a5b2259d47e063e7a3fb0a6a5e2a7293b067e627..2438c2c6926ea60cc2e90ef306acc5c7fe34fdc2 100644
--- a/source/blender/blenkernel/BKE_blender_version.h
+++ b/source/blender/blenkernel/BKE_blender_version.h
@@ -27,8 +27,8 @@
 /* these lines are grep'd, watch out for our not-so-awesome regex
  * and keep comment above the defines.
  * Use STRINGIFY() rather than defining with quotes */
-#define BLENDER_VERSION         278
-#define BLENDER_SUBVERSION      6
+#define BLENDER_VERSION         279
+#define BLENDER_SUBVERSION      0
 /* Several breakages with 270, e.g. constraint deg vs rad */
 #define BLENDER_MINVERSION      270
 #define BLENDER_MINSUBVERSION   6
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
 /* can be left blank, otherwise a,b,c... etc with no quotes */
 #define BLENDER_VERSION_CHAR
 /* alpha/beta/rc/release, docs use this */
-#define BLENDER_VERSION_CYCLE   alpha
+#define BLENDER_VERSION_CYCLE   rc
 
 extern char versionstr[]; /* from blender.c */
 
diff --git a/source/blender/blenloader/intern/versioning_270.c b/source/blender/blenloader/intern/versioning_270.c
index 94d335870caa392ede8bfa6f57db2f7c946ce45e..ba985ef50865ccda0631703d02da71840f588fd6 100644
--- a/source/blender/blenloader/intern/versioning_270.c
+++ b/source/blender/blenloader/intern/versioning_270.c
@@ -1659,7 +1659,7 @@ void blo_do_versions_270(FileData *fd, Library *UNUSED(lib), Main *main)
 		} FOREACH_NODETREE_END
 	}
 
-	{
+	if (!MAIN_VERSION_ATLEAST(main, 279, 0)) {
 		for (Scene *scene = main->scene.first; scene; scene = scene->id.next) {
 			if (scene->r.im_format.exr_codec == R_IMF_EXR_CODEC_DWAB) {
 				scene->r.im_format.exr_codec = R_IMF_EXR_CODEC_DWAA;
@@ -1676,7 +1676,7 @@ void blo_do_versions_270(FileData *fd, Library *UNUSED(lib), Main *main)
 void do_versions_after_linking_270(Main *main)
 {
 	/* To be added to next subversion bump! */
-	{
+	if (!MAIN_VERSION_ATLEAST(main, 279, 0)) {
 		FOREACH_NODETREE(main, ntree, id) {
 			if (ntree->type == NTREE_COMPOSIT) {
 				ntreeSetTypes(NULL, ntree);