diff --git a/ChangeLog.md b/ChangeLog.md
index 7e63a4b..b6e35d1 100644
--- a/ChangeLog.md
+++ b/ChangeLog.md
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ repository history](https://github.com/ddclient/ddclient/commits/master).
 
 ## 2022-05-15 v3.10.0-rc1
 
-This release contains a total of 350 commits according to GitHub.
+This release contains a total of over 360 commits according to GitHub.
 Many of them cleaned up and improved the code to make further maintenance easier.
 ddclient also went through a major maintainer change. More help is highly appreciated
 and for the time new features are unlikely to be implemented.
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 5cf5331..2bf0af0 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# DDCLIENT v3.9.1
+# DDCLIENT v3.10.0rc1
 
 `ddclient` is a Perl client used to update dynamic DNS entries for accounts 
 on many dynamic DNS services.
@@ -77,8 +77,8 @@ ddclient package.
      the directory:
 
      ```shell
-     tar xvfa ddclient-3.9.1.tar.gz
-     cd ddclient-3.9.1
+     tar xvfa ddclient-3.10.0rc1.tar.gz
+     cd ddclient-3.10.0rc1
      ```
 
      (If you are installing from a clone of the Git repository, you
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index cc6a8b6..112123b 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 AC_PREREQ([2.63])
-AC_INIT([ddclient], [3.9.1])
+AC_INIT([ddclient], [3.10.0rc1])
 AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([ddclient.in])
 AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR([build-aux])
 AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([m4])
diff --git a/ddclient.in b/ddclient.in
index 6d95989..90219aa 100755
--- a/ddclient.in
+++ b/ddclient.in
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ use IO::Socket::INET;
 use Socket qw(AF_INET AF_INET6 PF_INET PF_INET6);
 use Sys::Hostname;
 
-use version 0.77; our $VERSION = version->declare('v3.9.1');
+use version 0.77; our $VERSION = version->declare('v3.10.0rc1');
 (my $version = $VERSION->stringify()) =~ s/^v//;
 my $programd = $0;
 $programd =~ s%^.*/%%;