diff --git a/ABOUT.txt b/ABOUT.txt
index 7ad32db..5aa9b8b 100644
--- a/ABOUT.txt
+++ b/ABOUT.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 *******************************************
-*** This is SABnzbd 3.0.0               ***
+*** This is SABnzbd 3.0.1               ***
 *******************************************
 
 SABnzbd is an open-source cross-platform binary newsreader.
diff --git a/PKG-INFO b/PKG-INFO
index b21871a..d40b1b7 100644
--- a/PKG-INFO
+++ b/PKG-INFO
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Metadata-Version: 1.0
 Name: SABnzbd
-Version: 3.0.0
-Summary: SABnzbd-3.0.0
+Version: 3.0.1RC1
+Summary: SABnzbd-3.0.1RC1
 Home-page: https://sabnzbd.org
 Author: The SABnzbd Team
 Author-email: team@sabnzbd.org
diff --git a/README.mkd b/README.mkd
index 3851d8a..a80587f 100644
--- a/README.mkd
+++ b/README.mkd
@@ -1,7 +1,11 @@
-Release Notes - SABnzbd 3.0.0
+Release Notes - SABnzbd 3.0.1 RC 1
 =========================================================
 
-## About this new version
+## Bugfixes since 3.0.0
+- Permissions were not set correctly when creating directories.
+- Windows: base SSL certificate bundle was not included.
+
+## About the new major version
 We have been working for months to upgrade the SABnzbd code from Python 2 to Python 3.
 Although it might not sound like a big change, we had to rewrite almost every part of
 the code. We also included a number of new features, listed below.