diff --git a/ANNOUNCE b/ANNOUNCE
index 86b2dee0e..223350c60 100644
--- a/ANNOUNCE
+++ b/ANNOUNCE
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-Libpng 1.6.19beta02 - July 30, 2015
+Libpng 1.6.19beta02 - August 3, 2015
 
 This is not intended to be a public release.  It will be replaced
 within a few weeks by a public version or by another test version.
@@ -40,7 +40,10 @@ Version 1.6.19beta01 [July 30, 2015]
   Fixed potential leak of png_pixels in contrib/pngminus/pnm2png.c
   Fixed uninitialized variable in contrib/gregbook/rpng2-x.c
 
-Version 1.6.19beta02 [July 30, 2015]
+Version 1.6.19beta02 [August 3, 2015]
+  Moved config.h.in~ from the "libpng_autotools_files" list to the
+    "libpng_autotools_extra" list in autogen.sh because it was causing a
+    false positive for missing files (bug report by Robert C. Seacord).
 
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diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 919842c8f..01e20bca9 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -5319,7 +5319,10 @@ Version 1.6.19beta01 [July 30, 2015]
   Fixed potential leak of png_pixels in contrib/pngminus/pnm2png.c
   Fixed uninitialized variable in contrib/gregbook/rpng2-x.c
 
-Version 1.6.19beta02 [July 30, 2015]
+Version 1.6.19beta02 [August 3, 2015]
+  Moved config.h.in~ from the "libpng_autotools_files" list to the
+    "libpng_autotools_extra" list in autogen.sh because it was causing a
+    false positive for missing files (bug report by Robert C. Seacord).
 
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diff --git a/autogen.sh b/autogen.sh
index 702a0c110..91607171b 100755
--- a/autogen.sh
+++ b/autogen.sh
@@ -74,12 +74,12 @@ done
 #
 # The autotools generated files:
 libpng_autotools_files="Makefile.in aclocal.m4 config.guess config.h.in
-   config.h.in~ config.sub configure depcomp install-sh ltmain.sh missing\
+   config.sub configure depcomp install-sh ltmain.sh missing\
    test-driver"
 #
 # Files generated by versions of configue >2.68 or automake >1.13 (i.e. later
 # versions than those required by configure.ac):
-libpng_autotools_extra="compile"
+libpng_autotools_extra="compile config.h.in~"
 #
 # These are separate because 'maintainer-clean' does not remove them.
 libpng_libtool_files="scripts/libtool.m4 scripts/ltoptions.m4\