diff --git a/META b/META
index 456ee8122925..e4e770026b57 100644
--- a/META
+++ b/META
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Meta:          1
 Name:          zfs
 Branch:        1.0
 Version:       2.2.0
-Release:       rc2
+Release:       rc3
 Release-Tags:  relext
 License:       CDDL
 Author:        OpenZFS