diff --git a/doc/installation.rst b/doc/installation.rst
index 1969e0d64..68906a63c 100644
--- a/doc/installation.rst
+++ b/doc/installation.rst
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ to install pymongo on platforms other than Windows::
 
 To get a specific version of pymongo::
 
-  $ pip install pymongo==2.8
+  $ pip install pymongo==3.0.3
 
 To upgrade using pip::
 
@@ -222,7 +222,7 @@ depending on your platform and the version of python you use to compile.
 Copy this file to the target system and issue the following command to install the
 package::
 
-  $ sudo easy_install pymongo-3.0-py2.7-linux-x86_64.egg
+  $ sudo easy_install pymongo-3.0.3-py2.7-linux-x86_64.egg
 
 Installing a beta or release candidate
 --------------------------------------
@@ -233,9 +233,9 @@ but can be found on the
 `github tags page <https://github.com/mongodb/mongo-python-driver/tags>`_.
 They can be installed by passing the full URL for the tag to pip::
 
-  $ pip install https://github.com/mongodb/mongo-python-driver/archive/3.0rc1.tar.gz
+  $ pip install https://github.com/mongodb/mongo-python-driver/archive/3.1rc0.tar.gz
 
 or easy_install::
 
-  $ easy_install https://github.com/mongodb/mongo-python-driver/archive/3.0rc1.tar.gz
+  $ easy_install https://github.com/mongodb/mongo-python-driver/archive/3.1rc0.tar.gz
 
diff --git a/pymongo/__init__.py b/pymongo/__init__.py
index 57a54ad18..65c6c00a4 100644
--- a/pymongo/__init__.py
+++ b/pymongo/__init__.py
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ SLOW_ONLY = 1
 ALL = 2
 """Profile all operations."""
 
-version_tuple = (3, 1, 0, '.dev0')
+version_tuple = (3, 1, 'rc0')
 
 def get_version_string():
     if isinstance(version_tuple[-1], str):
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index defea22d7..91559346b 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ from distutils.errors import CCompilerError, DistutilsOptionError
 from distutils.errors import DistutilsPlatformError, DistutilsExecError
 from distutils.core import Extension
 
-version = "3.1.0.dev0"
+version = "3.1rc0"
 
 f = open("README.rst")
 try: