diff --git a/KNOWN_ISSUES b/KNOWN_ISSUES
index 934ca7b714bd7cc988c12bee526c9564d2364273..31330b989cc89b74c9db3aae9a2fad6bf6d9de57 100644
--- a/KNOWN_ISSUES
+++ b/KNOWN_ISSUES
@@ -14,3 +14,4 @@ Known bugs
 ==========
 
 * ACL may not always find the best match so it may behave counter-intuitively.
+* Rarely, incremental transfer fails to reschedule
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 14979510662825101c2a88551894b9ccf915dfcb..225de376d74d3d0998b6f2504a9f3529b6791627 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,5 +1,16 @@
 Knot DNS NEWS
 
+v1.3.0-rc5 - Jul 29, 2013
+-------------------------
+Features:
+	* Much faster bootstrap of many zones
+Bugfixes:
+	* Removed deprecated 'knotc -w' option
+	* Slave ignores out-of-zone records in zone
+	* Support for obsolete types in zone transfers
+	* Slave zone file names fixes
+	* Long transfers being randomly dropped
+
 v1.3.0-rc4 - Jul 15, 2013
 -------------------------
 Features:
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 7f664488b35bcdcbf976bcd626d55dbfd62e7f87..5747c8f5395b0cc83ff574ebe8bbc06e57edebdf 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #                                               -*- Autoconf -*-
 
 AC_PREREQ([2.60])
-AC_INIT([knot], [1.3.0-rc4], [knot-dns@labs.nic.cz])
+AC_INIT([knot], [1.3.0-rc5], [knot-dns@labs.nic.cz])
 AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([gnits subdir-objects dist-bzip2 dist-xz -Wall -Werror])
 AM_SILENT_RULES([yes])
 AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([src/knot/main.c])