diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 4ec09df967..b950cc0976 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2.3.6rc4 to 2.3.6rc5:
+  - Update dbs3-client version to 4.0.19 (Valentin Kuznetsov) #12098
+
+
 2.3.6rc3 to 2.3.6rc4:
   - Update python version to 3.8.20, with dmwm-base and wmagent-base images (Alan Malta Rodrigues) https://github.com/dmwm/CMSKubernetes/pull/1547
   - Use PNN to PSN conversion in WQE mapping (Kenyi Hurtado) #12094
diff --git a/src/python/WMCore/__init__.py b/src/python/WMCore/__init__.py
index 1716bfe1c1..1e96c9e8e0 100644
--- a/src/python/WMCore/__init__.py
+++ b/src/python/WMCore/__init__.py
@@ -6,5 +6,5 @@
 
 """
 
-__version__ = '2.3.6rc4'
+__version__ = '2.3.6rc5'
 __all__ = []