diff --git a/Lib/idlelib/NEWS.txt b/Lib/idlelib/NEWS.txt
index 1885421..941f3e4 100644
--- a/Lib/idlelib/NEWS.txt
+++ b/Lib/idlelib/NEWS.txt
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 What's New in IDLE 3.0a3?
 =========================
 
-*Release date: XX-XXX-2008*
+*Release date: 29-Feb-2008*
 
 - help() was not paging to the shell.  Issue1650.
 
diff --git a/Lib/idlelib/idlever.py b/Lib/idlelib/idlever.py
index d6c541d..fa352a7 100644
--- a/Lib/idlelib/idlever.py
+++ b/Lib/idlelib/idlever.py
@@ -1 +1 @@
-IDLE_VERSION = "3.0a2"
+IDLE_VERSION = "3.0a3"