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diff --git a/web/input/news/release-3-0-0-rc3.md b/web/input/news/release-3-0-0-rc3.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..890d808
--- /dev/null
+++ b/web/input/news/release-3-0-0-rc3.md
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+title: Version 3.0.0-rc3 Released
+author: Lorenz Kästle
+date: 2026-04-13
+---
+
+The Monitoring Plugins Development Team announces version 3.0.0-rc3 of
+the Monitoring Plugins!
+
+This is the third (and hopefully last) release candidate for version 3.0.0.
+
+The Changes are mostly fixes added to rc2, with some exceptions (e.g. the
+`--proxy` option for check_curl)
+
+### Changes
+ * Changes/Features
+   * check_real: implement modern output
+   * check_radius: Implement modern output
+   * OpenBSD: pledge(2) some network-facing checks
+   * check_curl: add proxy argument and improve dns cache usage
+
+ * Fixes
+   * Fix some minor compiler warnings
+   * Refactor check_ide_smart
+   * Compute numbers in output summary correctly
+   * check_icmp: prevent segfault on OpenBSD
+   * check_disk: compare inode thresholds against the correct value
+   * check_icmp: Populate progname before np_extra_opts call
+   * Make IPv6 unconditional
+   * Fix a few typos
+   * Make replacing of mismatching single quotes work
+   * Fix check_procs -T option
+   * check_curl: check certificates and exit before checking for curl_easy_perform result
+   * Remove troublesome symbols ("|") from output
+   * Update/gnulib 2026 03
+   * Handle rc_send_server in libfreeradius
+   * Revert check_disk performance data back to used space
+   * Add option to override output for check in lib for check_by_ssh
+   * common.h: added guard to avoid warning when ENABLE_NLS is not defined
+   * check_snmp: fixed falltrhough case in ASN_FLOAT/ASN_DOUBLE
+   * removed -Werror=declaration-after-statement from net-snmp-config --cf… by
+   * check_curl: Clean up
+   * added CHECK_EOF to work around warnings about EOF and -1 being the same
+
+
+[download]: /download.html
+
+<!--% # vim:set filetype=markdown textwidth=78 joinspaces expandtab: # %-->
diff --git a/web/macros.py b/web/macros.py
index eab21bc..97fba17 100644
--- a/web/macros.py
+++ b/web/macros.py
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ import math
 import os.path
 import time
 
-plugins_release = '3.0.0-rc2'
+plugins_release = '3.0.0-rc3'
 mib_release = '1.0.1'
 release_notes = 'news/release-%s.html' % plugins_release.replace('.', '-')
 site_url = 'https://www.monitoring-plugins.org/'