diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index fcf28d980..7af754442 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ actix-tls = { version = "3.0.0-beta.2", default-features = false, optional = tru
 
 actix-web-codegen = "0.4.0"
 actix-http = "3.0.0-beta.1"
-awc = { version = "2.0.3", default-features = false }
+awc = { version = "3.0.0-beta.1", default-features = false }
 
 ahash = "0.6"
 bytes = "1"
diff --git a/actix-http-test/Cargo.toml b/actix-http-test/Cargo.toml
index 2c0eae104..8af110ba9 100644
--- a/actix-http-test/Cargo.toml
+++ b/actix-http-test/Cargo.toml
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ actix-tls = "3.0.0-beta.2"
 actix-utils = "3.0.0-beta.1"
 actix-rt = "2.0.0-beta.1"
 actix-server = "2.0.0-beta.2"
-awc = "2.0.0"
+awc = "3.0.0-beta.1"
 
 base64 = "0.13"
 bytes = "1"
diff --git a/awc/CHANGES.md b/awc/CHANGES.md
index 45a38259c..89b6121f3 100644
--- a/awc/CHANGES.md
+++ b/awc/CHANGES.md
@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
 # Changes
 
 ## Unreleased - 2021-xx-xx
+
+
+## 3.0.0-beta.1 - 2021-01-07
 ### Changed
 * Update `rand` to `0.8`
 * Update `bytes` to `1.0`. [#1813]
diff --git a/awc/Cargo.toml b/awc/Cargo.toml
index 18247b797..177abdf4f 100644
--- a/awc/Cargo.toml
+++ b/awc/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "awc"
-version = "2.0.3"
+version = "3.0.0-beta.1"
 authors = ["Nikolay Kim <fafhrd91@gmail.com>"]
 description = "Async HTTP and WebSocket client library built on the Actix ecosystem"
 readme = "README.md"