diff --git a/NP-VERSION-GEN b/NP-VERSION-GEN
index e16f37da..e3bee849 100755
--- a/NP-VERSION-GEN
+++ b/NP-VERSION-GEN
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 SRC_ROOT=`dirname $0`
 
 NPVF=NP-VERSION-FILE
-DEF_VER=2.4git
+DEF_VER=3.0.0-rc4
 
 LF='
 '
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index e4351ad7..dd3bc1a3 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 dnl Process this file with autoconf to produce a configure script.
 AC_PREREQ([2.64])
-AC_INIT([monitoring-plugins],[2.4git])
+AC_INIT([monitoring-plugins],[3.0.0-rc4])
 AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR(NPTest.pm)
 AC_CONFIG_FILES([gl/Makefile])
 AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR(build-aux)