diff --git a/WORKSPACE b/WORKSPACE
index 8c9ff35dab0..516014b8a00 100644
--- a/WORKSPACE
+++ b/WORKSPACE
@@ -24,8 +24,8 @@ local_repository(
 load("//tensorflow_serving:repo.bzl", "tensorflow_http_archive")
 tensorflow_http_archive(
     name = "org_tensorflow",
-    sha256 = "4d4f15fa4e52f7c77a1793656f85d260225e2638aee34a9c7625583e0608265c",
-    git_commit = "332077006a5ed7004ee19fbae306768f8f500ca8",
+    sha256 = "a5a25eeff4c135bce0d99a8fe90a51bac6b25b6cfaea68c080424a63bce44642",
+    git_commit = "525da8a93eca846e32e5c41eddc0496b25a2ef5b",
 )
 
 # Import all of TensorFlow Serving's external dependencies.
diff --git a/tensorflow_serving/model_servers/BUILD b/tensorflow_serving/model_servers/BUILD
index 2809e2afb73..dc4affb3e29 100644
--- a/tensorflow_serving/model_servers/BUILD
+++ b/tensorflow_serving/model_servers/BUILD
@@ -535,7 +535,7 @@ pkg_deb(
     homepage = "https://github.com/tensorflow/serving",
     maintainer = "TensorFlow Serving team",
     package = "tensorflow-model-server",
-    version = "undefined",  # Set when releasing a new version of TensorFlow Serving (e.g. 1.0.0).
+    version = "2.13.0-rc0",  # Set when releasing a new version of TensorFlow Serving (e.g. 1.0.0).
 )
 
 # Build with '-c opt'
@@ -546,5 +546,5 @@ pkg_deb(
     homepage = "https://github.com/tensorflow/serving",
     maintainer = "TensorFlow Serving team",
     package = "tensorflow-model-server-universal",
-    version = "undefined",  # Set when releasing a new version of TensorFlow Serving (e.g. 1.0.0).
+    version = "2.13.0-rc0",  # Set when releasing a new version of TensorFlow Serving (e.g. 1.0.0).
 )
diff --git a/tensorflow_serving/model_servers/version.h b/tensorflow_serving/model_servers/version.h
index 5506eba2537..18d818b4f47 100644
--- a/tensorflow_serving/model_servers/version.h
+++ b/tensorflow_serving/model_servers/version.h
@@ -22,12 +22,12 @@ limitations under the License.
 #define TF_MODELSERVER_STR_HELPER(x) #x
 #define TF_MODELSERVER_STR(x) TF_MODELSERVER_STR_HELPER(x)
 
-#define TF_MODELSERVER_MAJOR_VERSION 0
-#define TF_MODELSERVER_MINOR_VERSION 0
+#define TF_MODELSERVER_MAJOR_VERSION 2
+#define TF_MODELSERVER_MINOR_VERSION 13
 #define TF_MODELSERVER_PATCH_VERSION 0
 // TF_MODELSERVER_VERSION_SUFFIX is non-empty for pre-releases
 // (e.g. "-alpha", "-alpha.1", "-beta", "-rc", "-rc.1")
-#define TF_MODELSERVER_VERSION_SUFFIX ""
+#define TF_MODELSERVER_VERSION_SUFFIX "-rc0"
 
 #ifndef TF_MODELSERVER_VERSION_NO_META
 // TF_MODELSERVER_BUILD_TAG can be set to be nightly for nightly builds
diff --git a/tensorflow_serving/tools/pip_package/setup.py b/tensorflow_serving/tools/pip_package/setup.py
index 48ac1f56d24..3d26c43cee4 100644
--- a/tensorflow_serving/tools/pip_package/setup.py
+++ b/tensorflow_serving/tools/pip_package/setup.py
@@ -31,9 +31,9 @@
 DOCLINES = __doc__.split('\n')
 
 # Set when releasing a new version of TensorFlow Serving (e.g. 1.0.0).
-_VERSION = '0.0.0'
+_VERSION = '2.13.0-rc0'
 # Have this by default be open; releasing a new version will lock to TF version
-_TF_VERSION = '>=1.2.0,<3'
+_TF_VERSION = '>=2.13.0-rc0,<3'
 _TF_VERSION_SANITIZED = _TF_VERSION.replace('-', '')
 
 project_name = 'tensorflow-serving-api'