diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 575060fe..10c7c18c 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+===============================================================================
+                               Changes in 1.1rc1
+===============================================================================
+
+- Used futex when external threads use Argobots synchronization operations
+- Optimized pool operations when pools are empty.
+- Fixed several bugs
+
 ===============================================================================
                                Changes in 1.1b1
 ===============================================================================
diff --git a/maint/version.m4 b/maint/version.m4
index 3c8b4182..d1b96c85 100644
--- a/maint/version.m4
+++ b/maint/version.m4
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 # See COPYRIGHT in top-level directory.
 #
 
-m4_define([ABT_VERSION_m4],[1.1b1])dnl
+m4_define([ABT_VERSION_m4],[1.1rc1])dnl
 m4_define([ABT_RELEASE_DATE_m4],[unreleased development copy])dnl
 
 # For libtool ABI versioning rules see: