diff --git a/tesseract/tesseract.spec b/tesseract/tesseract.spec
index f84794d8f5..2faaba8778 100644
--- a/tesseract/tesseract.spec
+++ b/tesseract/tesseract.spec
@@ -22,8 +22,8 @@
 ##
 
 #   package version
-%define       V_opkg  4.0.0rc2
-%define       V_dist  4.0.0-rc2
+%define       V_opkg  4.0.0rc3
+%define       V_dist  4.0.0-rc3
 
 #   package information
 Name:         tesseract
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ Class:        EVAL
 Group:        Algorithm
 License:      Apache
 Version:      %{V_opkg}
-Release:      20181008
+Release:      20181015
 
 #   list of sources
 Source0:      https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/archive/%{V_dist}.tar.gz