Prepare for release of 3.0 beta 1
Reviewed-by: Richard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org>
diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md
index 9eb5eeb..12d3992 100644
--- a/CHANGES.md
+++ b/CHANGES.md
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
[Migration guide]: https://github.com/openssl/openssl/tree/master/doc/man7/migration_guide.pod
-### Changes between 1.1.1 and 3.0 [xx XXX xxxx]
+### Changes between 1.1.1 and 3.0 beta 1 [17 Jun 2021]
* Add a configurable flag to output date formats as ISO 8601. Does not
change the default date format.
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 13a4e1b..0814933 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
OpenSSL 3.0
-----------
-### Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.1 and OpenSSL 3.0 [under development]
+### Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.1 and OpenSSL 3.0 beta 1 [in pre-release]
* Added migration guide to man7
* Implemented support for fully "pluggable" TLSv1.3 groups
diff --git a/VERSION.dat b/VERSION.dat
index 89f1d08..24fc71c 100644
--- a/VERSION.dat
+++ b/VERSION.dat
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
MAJOR=3
MINOR=0
PATCH=0
-PRE_RELEASE_TAG=beta1-dev
+PRE_RELEASE_TAG=beta1
BUILD_METADATA=
-RELEASE_DATE=""
+RELEASE_DATE="17 Jun 2021"
SHLIB_VERSION=3
