diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.txt
index a1f7994cec3ffa97cc81bf88236ce7d0f9621349..a9fa44919fa9c6fd997c56f6f33114d1fa18e895 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.txt
@@ -54,7 +54,8 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
    instance of the external tool once per a file pair.
 
  * The "fmt-merge-msg" command learned to list the primary contributors
-   involved in the side topic you are merging.
+   involved in the side topic you are merging in a comment in the merge
+   commit template.
 
  * "git rebase" learned to optionally keep commits that do not
    introduce any change in the original history.
@@ -129,6 +130,10 @@ Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.7.10 in the maintenance
 releases are contained in this release (see release notes to them for
 details).
 
+ * "git fast-export" did not give a readable error message when the
+   same mark erroneously appeared twice in the --import-marks input.
+   (merge 43bc230 js/maint-fast-export-mark-error later to maint).
+
  * "git rebase -p" used to pay attention to rebase.autosquash which
     was wrong.  "git rebase -p -i" should, but "git rebase -p" by
     itself should not.
diff --git a/GIT-VERSION-GEN b/GIT-VERSION-GEN
index a1f935e2b70d7b7805bf4832046356259551235f..728a5d4d290d9c503bf0db72bbc40656ec815a2b 100755
--- a/GIT-VERSION-GEN
+++ b/GIT-VERSION-GEN
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 
 GVF=GIT-VERSION-FILE
-DEF_VER=v1.7.11-rc2
+DEF_VER=v1.7.11-rc3
 
 LF='
 '