diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index f774e6153da..0b775263451 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 PHP                                                                        NEWS
 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
+?? Dec 2010, PHP 5.3.4
+
 02 Dec 2010, PHP 5.3.4RC2
 - Core:
   . Fixed extract() to do not overwrite $GLOBALS and $this when using
diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index 532d0a4d942..e554ef6fbb2 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ AC_CONFIG_HEADER(main/php_config.h)
 PHP_MAJOR_VERSION=5
 PHP_MINOR_VERSION=3
 PHP_RELEASE_VERSION=4
-PHP_EXTRA_VERSION="RC2"
+PHP_EXTRA_VERSION="RC3-dev"
 PHP_VERSION="$PHP_MAJOR_VERSION.$PHP_MINOR_VERSION.$PHP_RELEASE_VERSION$PHP_EXTRA_VERSION"
 PHP_VERSION_ID=`expr [$]PHP_MAJOR_VERSION \* 10000 + [$]PHP_MINOR_VERSION \* 100 + [$]PHP_RELEASE_VERSION`
 
diff --git a/main/php_version.h b/main/php_version.h
index b99d6bfc648..d81ca2e3638 100644
--- a/main/php_version.h
+++ b/main/php_version.h
@@ -3,6 +3,6 @@
 #define PHP_MAJOR_VERSION 5
 #define PHP_MINOR_VERSION 3
 #define PHP_RELEASE_VERSION 4
-#define PHP_EXTRA_VERSION "RC2"
-#define PHP_VERSION "5.3.4RC2"
+#define PHP_EXTRA_VERSION "RC3-dev"
+#define PHP_VERSION "5.3.4RC3-dev"
 #define PHP_VERSION_ID 50304