diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
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--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-## 2.17.0-rc.2 / 2020-03-18
+## 2.17.0-rc.3 / 2020-03-18
 
 This release implements isolation in TSDB. API queries and recording rules are
 guaranteed to only see full scrapes and full recording rules. This comes with a
diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index 4fd6e593b..9dba67016 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-2.17.0-rc.2
+2.17.0-rc.3