diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md
index da4a77a80..460b24f57 100644
--- a/CHANGES.md
+++ b/CHANGES.md
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 # Changes
 
-
-## [2.0.NEXT] - 2020-01-xx
+## [3.0.0-alpha.1] - 2020-03-11
 
 ### Added
 
@@ -10,11 +9,13 @@
 ### Changed
 
 * Use `sha-1` crate instead of unmaintained `sha1` crate
-* Skip empty chunks when returning response from a `Stream` #1308
+* Skip empty chunks when returning response from a `Stream` [#1308]
 * Update the `time` dependency to 0.2.7
 * Update `actix-tls` dependency to 2.0.0-alpha.1
 * Update `rustls` dependency to 0.17
 
+[#1308]: https://github.com/actix/actix-web/pull/1308
+
 ## [2.0.0] - 2019-12-25
 
 ### Changed
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 44e7f9aef..1ab2561e7 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "actix-web"
-version = "2.0.0"
+version = "3.0.0-alpha.1"
 authors = ["Nikolay Kim <fafhrd91@gmail.com>"]
 description = "Actix web is a simple, pragmatic and extremely fast web framework for Rust."
 readme = "README.md"
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ members = [
   ".",
   "awc",
   "actix-http",
-  "actix-cors",
+#  "actix-cors",
   "actix-files",
   "actix-framed",
 #  "actix-session",
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ rust-tls = { version = "0.17.0", package = "rustls", optional = true }
 [dev-dependencies]
 actix = "0.10.0-alpha.1"
 rand = "0.7"
-env_logger = "0.6"
+env_logger = "0.7"
 serde_derive = "1.0"
 brotli2 = "0.3.2"
 flate2 = "1.0.13"
diff --git a/actix-files/Cargo.toml b/actix-files/Cargo.toml
index c37d023f6..ed887e323 100644
--- a/actix-files/Cargo.toml
+++ b/actix-files/Cargo.toml
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ name = "actix_files"
 path = "src/lib.rs"
 
 [dependencies]
-actix-web = { version = "2.0.0-rc", default-features = false }
+actix-web = { version = "3.0.0-alpha.1", default-features = false }
 actix-http = "2.0.0-alpha.2"
 actix-service = "1.0.1"
 bitflags = "1"
@@ -33,4 +33,4 @@ v_htmlescape = "0.4"
 
 [dev-dependencies]
 actix-rt = "1.0.0"
-actix-web = { version = "2.0.0-rc", features=["openssl"] }
+actix-web = { version = "3.0.0-alpha.1", features=["openssl"] }
diff --git a/actix-multipart/Cargo.toml b/actix-multipart/Cargo.toml
index 3c8fe6de1..e81b07cb7 100644
--- a/actix-multipart/Cargo.toml
+++ b/actix-multipart/Cargo.toml
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ name = "actix_multipart"
 path = "src/lib.rs"
 
 [dependencies]
-actix-web = { version = "2.0.0", default-features = false }
+actix-web = { version = "3.0.0-alpha.1", default-features = false }
 actix-service = "1.0.1"
 actix-utils = "1.0.3"
 bytes = "0.5.3"
diff --git a/actix-web-actors/Cargo.toml b/actix-web-actors/Cargo.toml
index 7941e192c..7e24d8c99 100644
--- a/actix-web-actors/Cargo.toml
+++ b/actix-web-actors/Cargo.toml
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ path = "src/lib.rs"
 
 [dependencies]
 actix = "0.10.0-alpha.1"
-actix-web = "2.0.0"
+actix-web = "3.0.0-alpha.1"
 actix-http = "2.0.0-alpha.2"
 actix-codec = "0.2.0"
 bytes = "0.5.2"
diff --git a/actix-web-codegen/Cargo.toml b/actix-web-codegen/Cargo.toml
index 0b926b807..42befc0dd 100644
--- a/actix-web-codegen/Cargo.toml
+++ b/actix-web-codegen/Cargo.toml
@@ -18,5 +18,5 @@ proc-macro2 = "^1"
 
 [dev-dependencies]
 actix-rt = "1.0.0"
-actix-web = "2.0.0"
+actix-web = "3.0.0-alpha.1"
 futures = "0.3.1"
diff --git a/awc/Cargo.toml b/awc/Cargo.toml
index 5f4b493f8..fde136eb0 100644
--- a/awc/Cargo.toml
+++ b/awc/Cargo.toml
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ rust-tls = { version = "0.17.0", package="rustls", optional = true, features = [
 
 [dev-dependencies]
 actix-connect = { version = "2.0.0-alpha.2", features=["openssl"] }
-actix-web = { version = "2.0.0", features=["openssl"] }
+actix-web = { version = "3.0.0-alpha.1", features=["openssl"] }
 actix-http = { version = "2.0.0-alpha.2", features=["openssl"] }
 actix-http-test = { version = "1.0.0", features=["openssl"] }
 actix-utils = "1.0.3"
diff --git a/test-server/Cargo.toml b/test-server/Cargo.toml
index c34446fc8..29896898e 100644
--- a/test-server/Cargo.toml
+++ b/test-server/Cargo.toml
@@ -55,5 +55,5 @@ time = { version = "0.2.7", default-features = false, features = ["std"] }
 open-ssl = { version="0.10", package="openssl", optional = true }
 
 [dev-dependencies]
-actix-web = "2.0.0"
+actix-web = "3.0.0-alpha.1"
 actix-http = "2.0.0-alpha.2"