Prepare for release of 3.0 alpha 1openssl-3.0.0-alpha1

Reviewed-by: Richard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org>

3 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md
index 78e8f88c62..716eefc6ae 100644
--- a/CHANGES.md
+++ b/CHANGES.md
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ OpenSSL Releases
 OpenSSL 3.0
 -----------
 
-### Changes between 1.1.1 and 3.0 [xx XXX xxxx] ###
+### Changes between 1.1.1 and 3.0 alpha 1 [23 Apr 2020] ###
 
  * Deprecated EC_POINT_set_Jprojective_coordinates_GFp() and
    EC_POINT_get_Jprojective_coordinates_GFp(). These functions are not widely
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 59081b0cdd..7423ad8f0e 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ OpenSSL Releases
 OpenSSL 3.0
 -----------
 
-### Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.1 and OpenSSL 3.0 [under development] ###
+### Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.1 and OpenSSL 3.0 alpha 1 [in pre-release] ###
 
   * The X25519, X448, Ed25519, Ed448 and SHAKE256 algorithms are included in
     the FIPS provider.  None have the "fips=yes" property set and, as such,
diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index cba848cebe..b7529b46be 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 MAJOR=3
 MINOR=0
 PATCH=0
-PRE_RELEASE_TAG=dev
+PRE_RELEASE_TAG=alpha1
 BUILD_METADATA=
-RELEASE_DATE=
+RELEASE_DATE="23 Apr 2020"
 SHLIB_VERSION=3