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@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/).
 
 ## [Unreleased]
 
+## [3.1.0-rc1] - 2017-09-14
+
 ### Added
 
 - Support for extending APIcast location block with snippets of nginx configuration [PR #407][https://github.com/3scale/apicast/pull/407]
@@ -205,7 +207,7 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/).
 ### Changed
 - Major rewrite using JSON configuration instead of code generation.
 
-[Unreleased]: https://github.com/3scale/apicast/compare/v3.1.0-beta2...HEAD
+[Unreleased]: https://github.com/3scale/apicast/compare/v3.1.0-rc1...HEAD
 [2.0.0]: https://github.com/3scale/apicast/compare/v0.2...v2.0.0
 [3.0.0-alpha1]: https://github.com/3scale/apicast/compare/v2.0.0...v3.0.0-alpha1
 [3.0.0-alpha2]: https://github.com/3scale/apicast/compare/v3.0.0-alpha1...v3.0.0-alpha2
@@ -216,3 +218,4 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/).
 [3.1.0-alpha1]: https://github.com/3scale/apicast/compare/v3.0.0...v3.1.0-alpha1
 [3.1.0-beta1]: https://github.com/3scale/apicast/compare/v3.1.0-alpha1...v3.1.0-beta1
 [3.1.0-beta2]: https://github.com/3scale/apicast/compare/v3.1.0-beta1...v3.1.0-beta2
+[3.1.0-rc1]: https://github.com/3scale/apicast/compare/v3.1.0-beta2...v3.1.0-rc1