diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index c0d3a7d0c..1656f6cc4 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -32,11 +32,11 @@ PROJECT(OpenSceneGraph)
 SET(OPENSCENEGRAPH_MAJOR_VERSION 3)
 SET(OPENSCENEGRAPH_MINOR_VERSION 0)
 SET(OPENSCENEGRAPH_PATCH_VERSION 0)
-SET(OPENSCENEGRAPH_SOVERSION 78)
+SET(OPENSCENEGRAPH_SOVERSION 80)
 
 # set to 0 when not a release candidate, non zero means that any generated 
 # svn tags will be treated as release candidates of given number
-SET(OPENSCENEGRAPH_RELEASE_CANDIDATE 5)
+SET(OPENSCENEGRAPH_RELEASE_CANDIDATE 0)
 
 SET(OPENSCENEGRAPH_VERSION ${OPENSCENEGRAPH_MAJOR_VERSION}.${OPENSCENEGRAPH_MINOR_VERSION}.${OPENSCENEGRAPH_PATCH_VERSION})
 
diff --git a/include/osg/Version b/include/osg/Version
index afc55cbe8..4efbd0200 100644
--- a/include/osg/Version
+++ b/include/osg/Version
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ extern "C" {
 #define OPENSCENEGRAPH_MAJOR_VERSION    3
 #define OPENSCENEGRAPH_MINOR_VERSION    0
 #define OPENSCENEGRAPH_PATCH_VERSION    0
-#define OPENSCENEGRAPH_SOVERSION        78
+#define OPENSCENEGRAPH_SOVERSION        80
 
 /* Convenience macro that can be used to decide whether a feature is present or not i.e.
  * #if OSG_MIN_VERSION_REQUIRED(2,9,5)