diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 6d93372af0..7bc58bd0cd 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+2.3.7 to 2.3.8rc1:
+  - Fix str to bytes comparisons in checkProxy.py (Todor Ivanov) #12174
+  - Replace xquery with query, due to deprecation of the former since HTCondor 10.7.0 (Kenyi Hurtado) #12158
+  - add RucioUtils_t.RucioUtilsTest:testWeightedChoice to the unstable test (Alan Malta Rodrigues) #12150
+  - Update workqueue selector filter to no longer use ParentQueueUrl (Alan Malta Rodrigues) #12150
+
+
 2.3.6 to 2.3.7:
   - Augmentation of gfal-cp debuggin for StageOutImpl and GFAL2Impl scripts (Andrea Piccinelli) #12081
   - Provide JSON file with CouchDB replication selector function (Alan Malta Rodrigues) #12143
diff --git a/src/python/WMCore/__init__.py b/src/python/WMCore/__init__.py
index 448a002e3c..6847ea0866 100644
--- a/src/python/WMCore/__init__.py
+++ b/src/python/WMCore/__init__.py
@@ -6,5 +6,5 @@
 
 """
 
-__version__ = '2.3.7'
+__version__ = '2.3.8rc1'
 __all__ = []