diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
index 3da51f4..46e24b6 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 codebird-php - changelog
 ========================
 
-3.0.0-beta.2 (2015-12-20)
+3.0.0-rc.1 (2015-12-28)
 - #107 Decoding issue for big ints on 32-bit servers
 + #32 Add support for streaming API
 + #117 Drop cURL workarounds added for PHP 5.3
diff --git a/bower.json b/bower.json
index a3ccffb..c6400b9 100644
--- a/bower.json
+++ b/bower.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "codebird-php",
-  "version": "3.0.0-beta.2",
+  "version": "3.0.0-rc.1",
   "homepage": "http://www.jublo.net/projects/codebird/php",
   "authors": [
     "Joshua Atkins <joshua.atkins@jublo.net>",
diff --git a/src/codebird.php b/src/codebird.php
index afb2854..06e252a 100644
--- a/src/codebird.php
+++ b/src/codebird.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  * A Twitter library in PHP.
  *
  * @package   codebird
- * @version   3.0.0-beta.2
+ * @version   3.0.0-rc.1
  * @author    Jublo Solutions <support@jublo.net>
  * @copyright 2010-2015 Jublo Solutions <support@jublo.net>
  * @license   http://opensource.org/licenses/GPL-3.0 GNU General Public License 3.0
@@ -505,7 +505,7 @@ class Codebird
   /**
    * The current Codebird version
    */
-  protected static $_version = '3.0.0-beta.2';
+  protected static $_version = '3.0.0-rc.1';
 
   /**
    * The Request or access token. Used to sign requests