bumping to 3.0rc1
diff --git a/README b/README
index 80cfb62..482bc8a 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-This is Python version 3.0 beta 3
-=================================
+This is Python version 3.0 release candidate 1
+==============================================
 
 For notes specific to this release, see RELNOTES in this directory.
 Copyright (c) 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008