diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 0c85d0c..29c0e72 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 > This project uses [Break Versioning](https://github.com/ptaoussanis/encore/blob/master/BREAK-VERSIONING.md) as of **Aug 16, 2014**.
 
-## v3.0.0-RC2 / 2020 Sep 12
+## v3.0.0-RC3 / 2020 Sep 12
 
 ```clojure
-[com.taoensso/nippy "3.0.0-RC2"]
+[com.taoensso/nippy "3.0.0-RC3"]
 ```
 
 #### New since `v3.0.0-RC1`
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index ed4a286..c518eaa 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 **[CHANGELOG]** | [API] | current [Break Version]:
 
 ```clojure
-[com.taoensso/nippy "3.0.0-RC2"] ; BREAKING, see CHANGELOG for details
+[com.taoensso/nippy "3.0.0-RC3"] ; BREAKING, see CHANGELOG for details
 [com.taoensso/nippy "2.15.3"]    ; BREAKING, see CHANGELOG for details
 ```
 
diff --git a/project.clj b/project.clj
index 59204a1..c2bc898 100644
--- a/project.clj
+++ b/project.clj
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-(defproject com.taoensso/nippy "3.0.0-RC2"
+(defproject com.taoensso/nippy "3.0.0-RC3"
   :author "Peter Taoussanis <https://www.taoensso.com>"
   :description "High-performance serialization library for Clojure"
   :url "https://github.com/ptaoussanis/nippy"