diff --git a/.changelog/unreleased/features/9680-config-introduce-bootstrappeers.md b/.changelog/unreleased/features/9680-config-introduce-bootstrappeers.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 538429f3a24..00000000000
--- a/.changelog/unreleased/features/9680-config-introduce-bootstrappeers.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-- `[config]` Introduce `BootstrapPeers` to the config to allow
-  nodes to list peers to be added to the addressbook upon start up.
-  ([\#9680](https://github.com/tendermint/tendermint/pull/9680))
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 6b9cc932d55..770f2ed5ebf 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -98,9 +98,6 @@ for people who forked CometBFT and interact directly with the indexers kvstore.
 
 ### FEATURES
 
-- `[config]` Introduce `BootstrapPeers` to the config to allow
-  nodes to list peers to be added to the addressbook upon start up.
-  ([\#9680](https://github.com/tendermint/tendermint/pull/9680))
 - `[proxy]` Introduce `NewUnsyncLocalClientCreator`, which allows local ABCI
   clients to have the same concurrency model as remote clients (i.e. one
   mutex per client "connection", for each of the four ABCI "connections").
diff --git a/version/version.go b/version/version.go
index 05e64457a65..e4ce8c61a50 100644
--- a/version/version.go
+++ b/version/version.go
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ package version
 const (
 	// TMVersionDefault is the used as the fallback version of CometBFT
 	// when not using git describe. It is formatted with semantic versioning.
-	TMCoreSemVer = "0.38.0-rc2"
+	TMCoreSemVer = "0.38.0-rc3"
 	// ABCISemVer is the semantic version of the ABCI protocol
 	ABCISemVer  = "2.0.0"
 	ABCIVersion = ABCISemVer