diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 181865c0e..9cd970683 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ INCLUDE(FindPkgConfig)
 SET(VERSION_MAJOR "0")
 SET(VERSION_MINOR "4")
 SET(VERSION_PATCH "0")
-SET(VERSION_SUFFIX "rc2")
+SET(VERSION_SUFFIX "rc3")
 SET(VERSION "${VERSION_MAJOR}.${VERSION_MINOR}.${VERSION_PATCH}")
 IF(VERSION_SUFFIX)
 	SET (VERSION "${VERSION}-${VERSION_SUFFIX}")
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 68516e79b..bec7fd703 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 2008-10-20	Tobias Doerffel	<tobydox/at/users/dot/sourceforge/dot/net>
 
+	* CMakeLists.txt:
+	made 0.4.0-rc3 release
+
 	* README:
 	various fixes