diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index 9050f58d8..3bce43aed 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+1.1.0 rc 3
 * Fix NPE when saving CassandraRows containing null values (#446)
 
 1.1.0 rc 2
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index f98ef2d22..a353a589a 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -25,11 +25,11 @@ This project has been published to the Maven Central Repository.
 For SBT to download the connector binaries, sources and javadoc, put this in your project 
 SBT config:
                                                                                                                            
-    libraryDependencies += "com.datastax.spark" %% "spark-cassandra-connector" % "1.1.0-rc2" withSources() withJavadoc()
+    libraryDependencies += "com.datastax.spark" %% "spark-cassandra-connector" % "1.1.0-rc3" withSources() withJavadoc()
 
 If you want to access the functionality of Connector from Java, you may want to add also a Java API module:
 
-    libraryDependencies += "com.datastax.spark" %% "spark-cassandra-connector-java" % "1.1.0-rc2" withSources() withJavadoc()
+    libraryDependencies += "com.datastax.spark" %% "spark-cassandra-connector-java" % "1.1.0-rc3" withSources() withJavadoc()
 
 ## Building