diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index b10b6a4048c..a486dd7b900 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ Copyright (c) 2012      Sandia National Laboratories.  All rights reserved.
 Copyright (c) 2012      University of Houston. All rights reserved.
 Copyright (c) 2013      NVIDIA Corporation.  All rights reserved.
 Copyright (c) 2013-2018 Intel, Inc. All rights reserved.
-Copyright (c) 2018-2020 Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates.  All Rights
+Copyright (c) 2018-2021 Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates.  All Rights
                         reserved.
 Copyright (c) 2019-2021 Triad National Security, LLC. All rights
                         reserved.
@@ -58,9 +58,12 @@ included in the vX.Y.Z section and be denoted as:
    (** also appeared: A.B.C)  -- indicating that this item was previously
                                  included in release version vA.B.C.
 
-4.1.1 -- March, 2021
------------------------
+4.1.1 -- April, 2021
+--------------------
 
+- Change UCX PML to not warn about MPI_Request leaks during
+  MPI_FINALIZE by default.  The old behavior can be restored with
+  the mca_pml_ucx_request_leak_check MCA parameter.
 - Reverted temporary solution that worked around launch issues in
   SLURM v20.11.{0,1,2}. SchedMD encourages users to avoid these
   versions and to upgrade to v20.11.3 or newer.
diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index e7a86937e55..79bc5ae103b 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 # Copyright (c) 2018-2020 IBM Corporation.  All rights reserved.
 # Copyright (c) 2018      Research Organization for Information Science
 #                         and Technology (RIST).  All rights reserved.
-# Copyright (c) 2020      Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates.  All Rights
+# Copyright (c) 2020-2021 Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates.  All Rights
 #                         reserved.
 
 # This is the VERSION file for Open MPI, describing the precise
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ release=1
 # requirement is that it must be entirely printable ASCII characters
 # and have no white space.
 
-greek=rc2
+greek=rc3
 
 # If repo_rev is empty, then the repository version number will be
 # obtained during "make dist" via the "git describe --tags --always"