diff --git a/src/ChangeLog b/src/ChangeLog
index 4359c8f3..66706fce 100644
--- a/src/ChangeLog
+++ b/src/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2001-12-19  Hrvoje Niksic  <hniksic@arsdigita.com>
+
+	* version.c: Wget 1.8.1-pre3 is released.
+
 2001-12-19  Hrvoje Niksic  <hniksic@arsdigita.com>
 
 	* recur.c (retrieve_tree): Enqueue the canonical representation of
diff --git a/src/version.c b/src/version.c
index 291ecbad..49703a03 100644
--- a/src/version.c
+++ b/src/version.c
@@ -1 +1 @@
-char *version_string = "1.8.1-pre2+cvs";
+char *version_string = "1.8.1-pre3";