diff --git a/VERSION.txt b/VERSION.txt
index 0fa58639f95..97732436872 100644
--- a/VERSION.txt
+++ b/VERSION.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,77 @@
 jetty-12.0.0-SNAPSHOT
 
+jetty-12.0.0.alpha3 - 07 December 2022
+ + 5681 Unrecognized jetty-home/start.jar command line option not reported
+   clearly
+ + 5965 Option --write-module-graph produces wrong .dot file
+ + 7117 Timeout with Expect 100 continue when using ProxyServlet
+ + 7182 jetty.sh start process should remove jetty_state whenever deleting the
+   pid
+ + 7286 WebSocket write can time out even if the frame / callback has not been
+   failed.
+ + 7657 Remove unused test imports in jetty-nosql
+ + 7748 Allow overriding of url-pattern mapping in ServletContextHandler to
+   allow for regex or uri-template matching
+ + 7863 Default servlet drops first accept-encoding header if there is more
+   than one.
+ + 7891 Better Servlet PathMappings for Regex
+ + 7993 HttpClient idleTimeout configuration being ignored/overridden
+ + 8330 Persistent OpenId sessions can throw IllegalStateException
+ + 8448 incomplete Blocking.Callback and write errors
+ + 8460 Log or throw exception if DefaultSessionIdManager is used but has not
+   been started.
+ + 8536 HotSwapHandler race condition
+ + 8558 Idle timeout occured sometimes on HTTP/2 client with
+   `InputStreamResponseListener`
+ + 8584 org.eclipse.jetty.client.HttpRequest.send() never returns
+ + 8591 Indicate units of HttpClient properties
+ + 8606 Jetty 12: restore scope listeners functionality
+ + 8613 Update build for Java 19
+ + 8623 Use AutoLock in InputStreamResponseListener
+ + 8628 Pseudo restore `PathMappings.getMatch(String)` for backwards compat
+   reasons
+ + 8678 Jetty client is not responding to GO_AWAY packet received from (Jetty)
+   Server and continue to send traffic on same connection
+ + 8712 ELContextCleaner no longer needed.
+ + 8716 Multiple Host header values handled poorly
+ + 8721 jetty:effective-web-xml doesn't generate quickstart information for web
+   fragment jars that contain META-INF/resources
+ + 8723 Provide a thread-safe way to modify HttpClient proxies at runtime
+ + 8726 Jetty 12 - Improve ErrorProcessor to handle error pages
+ + 8744 jetty-12: Update to jasper 10.1.1
+ + 8749 Jetty 12 - `request.getContext().getContextPath()` should return full
+   context, not just last one
+ + 8750 AbstractProxyServlet.onServerResponseHeaders does not support headers
+   with empty values
+ + 8753 Starting HttpClient with destinationIdleTimeout set throws NPE.
+ + 8770 Review whether to send request body in redirects
+ + 8779 CompactPathRule drops query section on use
+ + 8786 KeyStoreScanner is not able to monitor a symlink file and always
+   resolves to the target.
+ + 8810 `ArrayRetainableByteBufferPool` inefficiently calculates bucket indices
+ + 8811 HTTP/2 session shutdown race may cause `Server.stop()` to block until
+   stop timeout
+ + 8858 Jetty 12 - Review MovedContextHandler
+ + 8863 Provide a possibility to name virtual threads
+ + 8886 Changes to Resource no longer support custom url schemes.
+ + 8895 Generate downloadable version of javadocs documentation in website
+   deploy script
+ + 8897 Update Conditional request handling for RFC7232
+ + 8905 GzipHandler fails to set Vary header on 304 responses
+ + 8913 Review Jetty XML syntax to allow calling JDK methods 
+ + 8921 Normalization of resources incorrect for quickstart in jetty-12
+ + 8923 Update FileID.getExtension() behaviors to match new JDK 20
+   Path.getExtension() behaviors
+ + 8973 Does ssl-reload monitor keystore when it is a symlink?
+ + 8975 Jetty 12 - rename getBaseResponse() to getServletContextResponse()
+ + 8980 jetty-12.0.x WebappClassloader addJars(Resource) incorrectly transforms
+   into a CombinedResource
+ + 8993 `Content.Chunk.isTerminal()` cannot discriminate `EOF` from chunks
+   containing a pooled empty buffer
+ + 8999 Overuse of FileID.isArchive() and inability to deal with packed jars
+   without .jar extension
+ + 9006 WebSocket Message InputStream read() returns signed byte
+
 jetty-12.0.0.alpha1 - 15 September 2022
  + 8474 Jetty 12 : Resource API Review
  + 8493 Review HTTP client feature `setRemoveIdleDestinations`
@@ -40,7 +112,7 @@ jetty-11.0.12 - 14 September 2022
    and `org.eclipse.jetty/infinispan-remote`
  + 8578 `getRequestURL` can append "null" if `getRequestURI` is unspecified in
    an authority-form request-target
-   
+
 jetty-10.0.12 - 14 September 2022
  + 7970 Maven Plugin - the option to set extraClasspath in the plugin
    configuration isn't working
@@ -75,8 +147,7 @@ jetty-9.4.49.v20220914 - 14 September 2022
  + 8414 BlockingArrayQueue drops all contents on drain
  + 8493 Review HTTP client feature `setRemoveIdleDestinations`
  + 8578 `getRequestURL` can append "null" if `getRequestURI` is unspecified in
-   an authority-form request-target   
-
+   an authority-form request-target
 
 jetty-12.0.0.alpha0 - 22 August 2022
  + First alpha release of Jetty 12. A lot changes but very good changes!
diff --git a/build/scripts/release-jetty.sh b/build/scripts/release-jetty.sh
index 13604685f73..e0d68f0eb78 100755
--- a/build/scripts/release-jetty.sh
+++ b/build/scripts/release-jetty.sh
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ reportMavenTestFailures() {
 
 echo ""
 if proceedyn "Are you sure you want to release using above? (y/N)" n; then
-    mvn clean install -pl build-resources
+    mvn clean install -pl build
     echo ""
     if proceedyn "Update VERSION.txt for $VER_RELEASE? (Y/n)" y; then
         mvn -N -Pupdate-version generate-resources