diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index b681322..cdf126b 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,14 @@
 > This project uses [Break Versioning](https://github.com/ptaoussanis/encore/blob/master/BREAK-VERSIONING.md) as of **Aug 16, 2014**.
 
+## v2.11.0-RC1 / 2016 Jan 23
+
+> Identical to v2.11.0-beta1 (published December 13 2015)
+
+```clojure
+[com.taoensso/nippy "2.11.0-RC1"]
+```
+
+
 ## v2.11.0-beta1 / 2015 Dec 13
 
 > This is a major performance release that **drops default support for thawing Nippy v1 archives** but is otherwise non-breaking
diff --git a/project.clj b/project.clj
index d54637b..5692047 100644
--- a/project.clj
+++ b/project.clj
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-(defproject com.taoensso/nippy "2.11.0-beta1"
+(defproject com.taoensso/nippy "2.11.0-RC1"
   :author "Peter Taoussanis <https://www.taoensso.com>"
   :description "High-performance serialization library for Clojure"
   :url "https://github.com/ptaoussanis/nippy"