diff --git a/readme.html b/readme.html
index 5bf47489c6..52f6759926 100644
--- a/readme.html
+++ b/readme.html
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 <body>
 <h1 id="logo">
 	<a href="http://wordpress.org/"><img alt="WordPress" src="wp-admin/images/wordpress-logo.png" width="250" height="68" /></a>
-	<br /> Version 3.0
+	<br /> Version 3.0.1
 </h1>
 <p style="text-align: center">Semantic Personal Publishing Platform</p>
 
diff --git a/wp-admin/includes/update-core.php b/wp-admin/includes/update-core.php
index d9698a7e4c..858a0f71c8 100644
--- a/wp-admin/includes/update-core.php
+++ b/wp-admin/includes/update-core.php
@@ -274,7 +274,7 @@ function update_core($from, $to) {
 	$mysql_version  = $wpdb->db_version();
 	$required_php_version = '4.3';
 	$required_mysql_version = '4.1.2';
-	$wp_version = '3.0';
+	$wp_version = '3.0.1';
 	$php_compat     = version_compare( $php_version, $required_php_version, '>=' );
 	$mysql_compat   = version_compare( $mysql_version, $required_mysql_version, '>=' ) || file_exists( WP_CONTENT_DIR . '/db.php' );
 
