diff --git a/NEWS.txt b/NEWS.txt
index 3cfd9a3bcb..578e426edf 100644
--- a/NEWS.txt
+++ b/NEWS.txt
@@ -47,16 +47,19 @@ using the provided 'sstableupgrade' tool.
 
 Upgrading
 ---------
-    - Materialized view users upgrading from 3.0.15 (3.0.X series) or 3.11.1 (3.11.X series) and  later that have performed range movements (join, decommission, move, etc),
-      should run repair on the base tables, and subsequently on the views to ensure data affected by CASSANDRA-14251 is correctly propagated to all replicas.
-    - Changes to bloom_filter_fp_chance will no longer take effect on existing sstables when the node is restarted. Only
-      compactions/upgradesstables regenerates bloom filters and Summaries sstable components. See CASSANDRA-11163	
+    - Materialized view users upgrading from 3.0.15 (3.0.X series) or 3.11.1 (3.11.X series) and
+      later that have performed range movements (join, decommission, move, etc), should run repair
+      on the base tables, and subsequently on the views to ensure data affected by CASSANDRA-14251
+      is correctly propagated to all replicas.
+    - Changes to bloom_filter_fp_chance will no longer take effect on existing sstables when the
+      node is restarted. Only compactions/upgradesstables regenerates bloom filters and Summaries
+      sstable components. See CASSANDRA-11163
 
 Deprecation
 -----------
-    - Background read repair has been deprecated. dclocal_read_repair_chance and
-      read_repair_chance table options have been deprecated, and will be removed entirely in 4.0.
-      See CASSANDRA-13910 for details.
+    - Background read repair has been deprecated. dclocal_read_repair_chance and read_repair_chance
+      table options have been deprecated, and will be removed entirely in 4.0. See CASSANDRA-13910
+      for details.
 
 3.11.2
 ======
diff --git a/build.xml b/build.xml
index 54c53720bf..ff1695be4f 100644
--- a/build.xml
+++ b/build.xml
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
     <property name="debuglevel" value="source,lines,vars"/>
 
     <!-- default version and SCM information -->
-    <property name="base.version" value="3.11.2"/>
+    <property name="base.version" value="3.11.3"/>
     <property name="scm.connection" value="scm:git://git.apache.org/cassandra.git"/>
     <property name="scm.developerConnection" value="scm:git://git.apache.org/cassandra.git"/>
     <property name="scm.url" value="http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=cassandra.git;a=tree"/>
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 0d791cba84..b4b788cd35 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+cassandra (3.11.3) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  * New release
+
+ -- Michael Shuler <michael@pbandjelly.org>  Mon, 02 Jul 2018 13:36:16 -0500
+
 cassandra (3.11.2) unstable; urgency=medium
 
   * New release