diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 54f1982..7db1426 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -58,3 +58,4 @@
 /389-ds-base-1.2.11.14.tar.bz2
 /389-ds-base-1.2.11.15.tar.bz2
 /389-ds-base-1.3.0.a1.tar.bz2
+/389-ds-base-1.3.0.rc1.tar.bz2
diff --git a/389-ds-base-git-local.sh b/389-ds-base-git-local.sh
index 88795ae..3db5e50 100644
--- a/389-ds-base-git-local.sh
+++ b/389-ds-base-git-local.sh
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 DATE=`date +%Y%m%d`
 # use a real tag name here
-VERSION=1.3.0.a1
+VERSION=1.3.0.rc1
 PKGNAME=389-ds-base
 TAG=${TAG:-$PKGNAME-$VERSION}
 #SRCNAME=$PKGNAME-$VERSION-$DATE
diff --git a/389-ds-base.spec b/389-ds-base.spec
index 9dfaf0b..ac2de22 100644
--- a/389-ds-base.spec
+++ b/389-ds-base.spec
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 # for a pre-release, define the prerel field e.g. .a1 .rc2 - comment out for official release
 # also remove the space between % and global - this space is needed because
 # fedpkg verrel stupidly ignores comment lines
-%global prerel .a1
+%global prerel .rc1
 # also need the relprefix field for a pre-release e.g. .0 - also comment out for official release
 %global relprefix 0.
 
@@ -311,6 +311,63 @@ fi
 %{_libdir}/%{pkgname}/libslapd.so.*
 
 %changelog
+* Tue Dec 11 2012 Noriko Hosoi <nhosoi@redhat.com> - 1.3.0-0.1.rc1
+- bump version to 1.3.0.rc1
+- Ticket #322 - Create DOAP description for the 389 Directory Server project
+- Trac Ticket #499 - Handling URP results is not corrrect
+- Ticket 509 - lock-free access to be->be_suffixlock
+- Ticket 456 - improve entry cache sizing
+- Trac Ticket #531 - loading an entry from the database should use str2entry_f
+- Trac Ticket #536 - Clean up compiler warnings for 1.3
+- Trac Ticket #531 - loading an entry from the database should use str2entry_fast
+- Ticket 509 - lock-free access to be->be_suffixlock
+- Ticket 527 - ns-slapd segfaults if it cannot rename the logs
+- Ticket 395 - RFE: 389-ds shouldn't advertise in the rootDSE that we can handle a sasl mech if we really can't
+- Ticket 216 - disable replication agreements
+- Ticket 518 - dse.ldif is 0 length after server kill or machine kill
+- Ticket 393 - Change in winSyncInterval does not take immediate effect
+- Ticket 20 - Allow automember to work on entries that have already been added
+- Coverity Fixes
+- Ticket 349 - nsViewFilter syntax issue in 389DS 1.2.5
+- Ticket 337 - improve CLEANRUV functionality
+- Fix for ticket 504
+- Ticket 394 - modify-delete userpassword
+- minor fixes for bdb 4.2/4.3 and mozldap
+- Trac Ticket #276 - Multiple threads simultaneously working on connection's private buffer causes ns-slapd to abort
+- Fix for ticket 465: cn=monitor showing stats for other db instances
+- Ticket 507 - use mutex for FrontendConfig lock instead of rwlock
+- Fix for ticket 510 Avoid creating an attribute just to determine the syntax for a type, look up the syntax directly by type
+- Coverity defect: Resource leak 13110
+- Ticket 517 - crash in DNA if no dnaMagicRegen is specified
+- Trac Ticket #520 - RedHat Directory Server crashes (segfaults) when moving ldap entry
+- Trac Ticket #519 - Search with a complex filter including range search is slow
+- Trac Ticket #500 - Newly created users with organizationalPerson objectClass fails to sync from AD to DS with missing attribute error
+- Trac Ticket #311 - IP lookup failing with multiple DNS entries
+- Trac Ticket #447 - Possible to add invalid attribute to nsslapd-allowed-to-delete-attrs
+- Trac Ticket #443 - Deleting attribute present in nsslapd-allowed-to-delete-attrs returns Operations error
+- Ticket #503 - Improve AD version in winsync log message
+- Trac Ticket #190 - Un-resolvable server in replication agreement produces unclear error message
+- Coverity fixes
+- Trac Ticket #391 - Slapd crashes when deleting backends while operations are still in progress
+- Trac Ticket #448 - Possible to set invalid macros in Macro ACIs
+- Trac Ticket #498 - Cannot abaondon simple paged result search
+- Coverity defects
+- Trac Ticket #494 - slapd entered to infinite loop during new index addition
+- Fixing compiler warnings in the posix-winsync plugin
+- Coverity defects
+- Ticket 147 - Internal Password Policy usage very inefficient
+- Ticket 495 - internalModifiersname not updated by DNA plugin
+- Revert "Ticket 495 - internalModifiersname not updated by DNA plugin"
+- Ticket 495 - internalModifiersname not updated by DNA plugin
+- Ticket 468 - if pam_passthru is enabled, need to AC_CHECK_HEADERS([security/pam_appl.h])
+- Ticket 486 - nsslapd-enablePlugin should not be multivalued
+- Ticket 488 - Doc: DS error log messages with typo
+- Trac Ticket #451 - Allow db2ldif to be quiet
+- Ticket #491 - multimaster_extop_cleanruv returns wrong error codes
+- Ticket #481 - expand nested posix groups
+- Trac Ticket #455 - Insufficient rights to unhashed#user#password when user deletes his password
+- Ticket #446 - anonymous limits are being applied to directory manager
+
 * Tue Oct 9 2012 Mark Reynolds <mareynol@redhat.com> - 1.3.0.a1-1
 Ticket #28 	MOD operations with chained delete/add get back error 53 on backend config
 Ticket #173 	ds-logpipe.py script's man page and script help should be updated for -t option.
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index 37aacee..b6e48b1 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-21cc102c9a7208429f183519b3d75a2d  389-ds-base-1.3.0.a1.tar.bz2
+cbdaa4cecaf211b644659833b30a63d7  389-ds-base-1.3.0.rc1.tar.bz2