Prep for 3.0.0-rc3

Author: cowtowncoder

pom.xml

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
     <groupId>tools.jackson</groupId>
     <!-- In 3.0+, extends `jackson-base` just like all other components; 2.x did not -->
     <artifactId>jackson-base</artifactId>
-    <version>3.0.0-rc3-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>3.0.0-rc3</version>
   </parent>
 
   <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16302247/maven-property-project-artifact-sel
     <!-- 08-Mar-2025, tatu: This will be a problem... so easy to forget to update.
 	   Already happened with 3.0 -rc1 where dependency was left as -SNAPSHOT
       -->
-    <bom4gmm.version>3.0.0-rc3-SNAPSHOT</bom4gmm.version>
+    <bom4gmm.version>3.0.0-rc3</bom4gmm.version>
 
     <!-- for Reproducible Builds -->
     <project.build.outputTimestamp>2025-03-28T22:32:56Z</project.build.outputTimestamp>

release-notes/VERSION

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ mostly)
 === Releases ===
 ------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-3.0-rc3 (not yet released)
+3.0-rc3 (13-Apr-2025)
 
 #286: jackson-annotations `3.0.0-rc2` not usable by gradle
  (fixed by @pjfanning)