diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index f54569f342..a94b3ba7e4 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -1,9 +1,11 @@
-5.0-alpha2
+5.0-alpha3
  * Upgrade Python driver to 3.28.0 (CASSANDRA-18960)
  * Add retries to IR messages (CASSANDRA-18962)
  * Add metrics and logging to repair retries (CASSANDRA-18952)
  * Remove deprecated code in Cassandra 1.x and 2.x (CASSANDRA-18959)
  * ClientRequestSize metrics should not treat CONTAINS restrictions as being equality-based (CASSANDRA-18896)
+
+5.0-alpha2
  * Add support for vector search in SAI (CASSANDRA-18715)
  * Remove crc_check_chance from CompressionParams (CASSANDRA-18872)
  * Fix schema loading of UDTs inside vectors inside UDTs (CASSANDRA-18964)
diff --git a/build.xml b/build.xml
index de370b1154..7bc0f79a74 100644
--- a/build.xml
+++ b/build.xml
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
     <property name="debuglevel" value="source,lines,vars"/>
 
     <!-- default version and SCM information -->
-    <property name="base.version" value="5.0-alpha2"/>
+    <property name="base.version" value="5.0-alpha3"/>
     <property name="scm.connection" value="scm:https://gitbox.apache.org/repos/asf/cassandra.git"/>
     <property name="scm.developerConnection" value="scm:https://gitbox.apache.org/repos/asf/cassandra.git"/>
     <property name="scm.url" value="https://gitbox.apache.org/repos/asf?p=cassandra.git;a=tree"/>