diff --git a/apps/emqx/include/emqx_release.hrl b/apps/emqx/include/emqx_release.hrl
index 1424eb8a5..7a1310f88 100644
--- a/apps/emqx/include/emqx_release.hrl
+++ b/apps/emqx/include/emqx_release.hrl
@@ -24,4 +24,4 @@
 
 %% NOTE: This version number should be manually bumped for each release
 
--define(EMQX_RELEASE, "5.0-beta.2").
+-define(EMQX_RELEASE, "5.0-beta.3").