diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 78b387187e..c346a9800b 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@
                                   Changelog
 
 
+Version 7.10.8-pre3 (8 October 2003)
+
 Daniel (8 October)
 - Frank Ticheler provided a patch that fixes how libcurl connects to multiple
   addresses, if one of them fails (ipv4-code).
diff --git a/include/curl/curl.h b/include/curl/curl.h
index fd507fda8b..5aa4cc9232 100644
--- a/include/curl/curl.h
+++ b/include/curl/curl.h
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
 
 /* This is the version number of the libcurl package from which this header
    file origins: */
-#define LIBCURL_VERSION "7.10.8-pre2"
+#define LIBCURL_VERSION "7.10.8-pre3"
 
 /* This is the numeric version of the libcurl version number, meant for easier
    parsing and comparions by programs. The LIBCURL_VERSION_NUM define will
diff --git a/src/version.h b/src/version.h
index 5b13eba85d..60166710a5 100644
--- a/src/version.h
+++ b/src/version.h
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 #define CURL_NAME "curl"
-#define CURL_VERSION "7.10.8-pre2"
+#define CURL_VERSION "7.10.8-pre3"
 #define CURL_ID CURL_NAME " " CURL_VERSION " (" OS ") "