diff --git a/README.txt b/README.txt
index e6449d35b..6a3f12f91 100644
--- a/README.txt
+++ b/README.txt
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 English README file for OpenSlides
 ==================================
 
-This is OpenSlides, version 1.3-beta2 (2012-11-09).
+This is OpenSlides, version 1.3-rc1 (2012-11-27).
 
 
 What is OpenSlides?
diff --git a/openslides/__init__.py b/openslides/__init__.py
index 93ec6dc61..35e4ea998 100644
--- a/openslides/__init__.py
+++ b/openslides/__init__.py
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
     :license: GNU GPL, see LICENSE for more details.
 """
 
-VERSION = (1, 3, 0, 'beta', 2)
+VERSION = (1, 3, 0, 'rc', 1)
 
 
 def get_version(version=None):