diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 0fb73b3c75..a72f38ccae 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Changelog
 
-## Unreleased
+## 8.0.0-rc.3
 
 ### Features
 
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@
 - Close backpressure monitor on SDK shutdown ([#3998](https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-java/pull/3998))
   - Due to the backpressure monitor rescheduling a task to run every 10s, it very likely caused shutdown to wait the full `shutdownTimeoutMillis` (defaulting to 2s) instead of being able to terminate immediately
 - Improve ignored check performance ([#3992](https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-java/pull/3992))
-  - Checking if a span origin, a transaction or a checkIn should be ignored is now faster 
+  - Checking if a span origin, a transaction or a checkIn should be ignored is now faster
 
 ## 8.0.0-rc.2
 
diff --git a/gradle.properties b/gradle.properties
index a0ed1ace96..8764c2cdf9 100644
--- a/gradle.properties
+++ b/gradle.properties
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ android.useAndroidX=true
 android.defaults.buildfeatures.buildconfig=true
 
 # Release information
-versionName=8.0.0-rc.2
+versionName=8.0.0-rc.3
 
 # Override the SDK name on native crashes on Android
 sentryAndroidSdkName=sentry.native.android