Prep for 3.0.0-rc1

Author: cowtowncoder

pom.xml

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
   <parent>
     <groupId>tools.jackson</groupId>
     <artifactId>jackson-base</artifactId>
-    <version>3.0.0-rc1-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>3.0.0-rc1</version>
   </parent>
   <groupId>tools.jackson.dataformat</groupId>
   <artifactId>jackson-dataformat-xml</artifactId>

release-notes/VERSION

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ Version: 3.x (for earlier see VERSION-2.x)
 === Releases === 
 ------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-3.0.0 (not yet released)
+3.0.0-rc1 (07-Mar-2025)
 
 #25: `ACCEPT_EMPTY_STRING_AS_NULL_OBJECT` not honored in xml module for attributes
  (reported by Morten-Olav H)