diff --git a/Make.config b/Make.config
index 41117741b2..82fe6a1e29 100644
--- a/Make.config
+++ b/Make.config
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ endif
 ##
 ## Note that the prerelease identifier should be as short as possible, because otherwise
 ## the resulting package name can become too long for MSIs.
-NUGET_HARDCODED_PRERELEASE_IDENTIFIER=net8-p1
+NUGET_HARDCODED_PRERELEASE_IDENTIFIER=net8-p2
 NUGET_HARDCODED_PRERELEASE_BRANCH=net8.0
 
 # compute the alphanumeric version of branch names