diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index 23cc0fc..80bba3b 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ Installation
 Changelog
 ------------
 
-*   3.0 (in developement, not yet released)
+*   3.0rc1 (2018-04-23)
 
     *   Support django 1.11, 2.0
     *   Change default human-readable timezone names to exclude underscores
diff --git a/timezone_field/__init__.py b/timezone_field/__init__.py
index 1a1f777..7bdddff 100644
--- a/timezone_field/__init__.py
+++ b/timezone_field/__init__.py
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 from timezone_field.fields import TimeZoneField
 from timezone_field.forms import TimeZoneFormField
 
-__version__ = '2.1'
+__version__ = '3.0rc1'
 __all__ = ['TimeZoneField', 'TimeZoneFormField']