diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 5bb6e5e7bb..4ebb831ce5 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ Build and Release:
 	* Drop repository repo.or.cz for submodules
 	* Move gerrit to https://review.openocd.org/
 	* Require autoconf 2.69 or newer
-	* Update jep106 to revision JEP106BE
+	* Update jep106 to revision JEP106BF.01
 	* Update jimtcl to version 0.81
 	* Update libjaylink to version 0.3.1
 	* New configure flag '--enable-jimtcl-maintainer' for jimtcl build
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ This release also contains a number of other important functional and
 cosmetic bugfixes. For more details about what has changed since the
 last release, see the git repository history:
 
-http://sourceforge.net/p/openocd/code/ci/v0.12.0-rc2/log/?path=
+http://sourceforge.net/p/openocd/code/ci/v0.12.0-rc3/log/?path=
 
 
 For older NEWS, see the NEWS files associated with each release
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 503e791695..23c524359f 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
 
 AC_PREREQ([2.69])
-AC_INIT([openocd], [0.12.0-rc2+dev],
+AC_INIT([openocd], [0.12.0-rc3],
   [OpenOCD Mailing List <openocd-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>])
 AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([src/openocd.c])
 AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR([build-aux])