diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index a15358f9fc2..df36bdab106 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,8 +1,33 @@
-## 3.0.0-beta.5
+## 3.0.0-rc.1
 
-Mapbox GL JS v3 enables the Mapbox Standard Style, a new realistic 3D lighting system, building shadows and many other visual enhancements, and an ergonomic API for using a new kind of rich, evolving, configurable map styles and seamless integration with custom data. You can get more information about the new features in the [Mapbox GL JS v3 migration guide](./MIGRATION_GUIDE_v3.md). Changes since `v3.0.0-beta.3`:
+Mapbox GL JS v3 enables the Mapbox Standard Style, a new realistic 3D lighting system, building shadows and many other visual enhancements, and an ergonomic API for using a new kind of rich, evolving, configurable map styles and seamless integration with custom data. You can get more information about the new features in the [Mapbox GL JS v3 migration guide](./MIGRATION_GUIDE_v3.md). Changes since `v3.0.0-beta.5`:
 
-### ✨ Features and improvements
+### Features and improvements ✨
+
+- Enable zoom-based expressions for model rotation, scale and translation.
+- Optimize shader compilation to reduce stuttering on complex 3D styles.
+- Reduce stuttering when loading 3D tiles with models.
+- Improve memory footprint when rendering ground lighting effects.
+- Reduce flickering of symbols along lines due to rounding errors.
+- Improve panning over bumpy terrain so that it feels smooth.
+- Optimize switching between styles that have imports.
+- Add support for `slot` in custom layers.
+
+### Bug fixes 🐞
+
+- Fix rendering of line layers with data-driven `line-border`.
+- Fix an issue with lighting inconsistency between rendering with and without terrain.
+- Fix an issue with symbols sometimes not rendering correctly over terrain on top-down view.
+- Fix an issue with `raster-color` sometimes causing memory issues.
+- Fix an issue with non-1 alpha in `fill-extrusion-color` causing rendering issues in 3D lighting mode.
+- Disallow duplicate style import IDs.
+- Disallow duplicate directional and ambient lights.
+- Fix wireframe debug mode for model rendering.
+- Root style top-level properties take precedence over children import top-level  properties
+
+## 3.0.0-beta.5
+
+### Features and improvements ✨
 
 - Improve shadow and fog rendering performance.
 - Slightly improve performance of 3D layers on highly pitched views by rendering front to back.
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 11bca117d78..95a5b893d8f 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
   "name": "mapbox-gl",
   "description": "A WebGL interactive maps library",
-  "version": "3.0.0-beta.5",
+  "version": "3.0.0-rc.1",
   "main": "dist/mapbox-gl.js",
   "style": "dist/mapbox-gl.css",
   "license": "SEE LICENSE IN LICENSE.txt",
diff --git a/src/style-spec/package.json b/src/style-spec/package.json
index 356e0a6cacb..29d67cc62c9 100644
--- a/src/style-spec/package.json
+++ b/src/style-spec/package.json
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
   "name": "@mapbox/mapbox-gl-style-spec",
   "description": "a specification for mapbox gl styles",
-  "version": "14.0.0-beta.4",
+  "version": "14.0.0-rc.1",
   "author": "Mapbox",
   "keywords": [
     "mapbox",
diff --git a/test/unit/mapbox-gl.js b/test/unit/mapbox-gl.js
index 2c6af6f844a..a666e6646c1 100644
--- a/test/unit/mapbox-gl.js
+++ b/test/unit/mapbox-gl.js
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ import mapboxgl from '../../src/index.js';
 test('mapboxgl', (t) => {
     t.test('version', (t) => {
         t.ok(mapboxgl.version);
-        t.match(mapboxgl.version, /^3\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+(-dev|-beta\.[1-9])?$/);
+        t.match(mapboxgl.version, /^3\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+(-(dev|beta|rc)\.[1-9])?$/);
         t.end();
     });
 
diff --git a/test/unit/ui/map.test.js b/test/unit/ui/map.test.js
index bee9535dc23..ad64cdb2f60 100755
--- a/test/unit/ui/map.test.js
+++ b/test/unit/ui/map.test.js
@@ -4119,7 +4119,7 @@ test('Map', (t) => {
         const version = map.version;
         t.test('returns version string', (t) => {
             t.ok(version);
-            t.match(version, /^3\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+(-dev|-beta\.[1-9])?$/);
+            t.match(version, /^3\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+(-(dev|beta|rc)\.[1-9])?$/);
             t.end();
         });
         t.test('cannot be set', (t) => {