diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md
index b33330d433..49031339d0 100644
--- a/CHANGES.md
+++ b/CHANGES.md
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ breaking changes, and mappings for the large list of deprecated functions.
 
 [Migration guide]: https://github.com/openssl/openssl/tree/master/doc/man7/migration_guide.pod
 
-### Changes between 1.1.1 and 3.0 beta 2 [29 Jul 2021]
+### Changes between 1.1.1 and 3.0 [xx XXX xxxx]
 
  * The ERR_GET_FUNC() function was removed.  With the loss of meaningful
    function codes, this function can only cause problems for calling
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 091193c6b1..13a4e1bbf6 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ OpenSSL Releases
 OpenSSL 3.0
 -----------
 
-### Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.1 and OpenSSL 3.0 beta 2 [in pre-release]
+### Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.1 and OpenSSL 3.0 [under development]
 
   * Added migration guide to man7
   * Implemented support for fully "pluggable" TLSv1.3 groups
diff --git a/VERSION.dat b/VERSION.dat
index ed97c8ace2..d5c6836ce5 100644
--- a/VERSION.dat
+++ b/VERSION.dat
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 MAJOR=3
 MINOR=0
 PATCH=0
-PRE_RELEASE_TAG=beta2
+PRE_RELEASE_TAG=beta3-dev
 BUILD_METADATA=
-RELEASE_DATE="29 Jul 2021"
+RELEASE_DATE=""
 SHLIB_VERSION=3