diff --git a/doc/mkexp.fodt b/doc/mkexp.fodt
index a3c3382f4decde997ab61ed1633bf989a0e9371c..aa161c93f416caaecdb5367ee5008dc2d3da0e42 100644
--- a/doc/mkexp.fodt
+++ b/doc/mkexp.fodt
@@ -3252,7 +3252,7 @@
    </text:sequence-decls>
    <text:p text:style-name="P424">Make Experiments!</text:p>
    <text:p text:style-name="P5">Run-script generation for earth system models</text:p>
-   <text:p text:style-name="P333">Release 1.4.2-dev</text:p>
+   <text:p text:style-name="P333">Release 1.4.2rc3</text:p>
    <text:p text:style-name="P389">Karl-Hermann Wieners<text:line-break/><text:span text:style-name="T322">Max-Planck-Institut für Meteorologie<text:line-break/>Hamburg</text:span></text:p>
    <text:table-of-content text:style-name="Sect1" text:protected="true" text:name="Table of Contents1">
     <text:table-of-content-source text:outline-level="10">
diff --git a/doc/mkexp.pdf b/doc/mkexp.pdf
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diff --git a/package_info.py b/package_info.py
index ae69d079b74b763ac9a94e946273b743d2167824..64f154e41847dc27f1e8f02939acf7af060a7046 100644
--- a/package_info.py
+++ b/package_info.py
@@ -4,4 +4,4 @@ Information on package name and version
 
 full_name = 'Make Experiments!'
 name = 'mkexp'
-version = '1.4.2-dev'
+version = '1.4.2rc3'