diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 7ae2158..e64c0e4 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [tool.poetry]
 name = "pybricks"
-version = "3.0.0a5"
+version = "3.0.0-rc.1"
 description = "Documentation and user-API stubs for Pybricks MicroPython"
 authors = ["The Pybricks Authors <dev@pybricks.com>"]
 maintainers = ["Laurens Valk <laurens@pybricks.com>", "David Lechner <david@pybricks.com>" ]