diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 6bf9126b7e..237135d235 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2.0.0.pre2 to 2.0.0.pre3:
+  - Check that sdir exists on a file system (Valentin Kuznetsov) #10938
+
+
 2.0.0.pre1 to 2.0.0.pre2:
   - Unittests: Add MSUnmergedRSE_t (Todor Ivanov) #10687
   - Fix MSUnmerged logic and MSUnmergedRSE format to account for deletion errors. (Todor Ivanov) #10687
diff --git a/src/python/WMCore/__init__.py b/src/python/WMCore/__init__.py
index ca0eaeb01d..5a54e6e41d 100644
--- a/src/python/WMCore/__init__.py
+++ b/src/python/WMCore/__init__.py
@@ -6,5 +6,5 @@
 
 """
 
-__version__ = '2.0.0.pre2'
+__version__ = '2.0.0.pre3'
 __all__ = []