diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 6fe1df3a6..885e7bd1d 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -290,7 +290,7 @@ checksum = "7fcaabb2fef8c910e7f4c7ce9f67a1283a1715879a7c230ca9d6d1ae31f16d91"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "electrs"
-version = "0.9.14"
+version = "0.10.0-rc.1"
 dependencies = [
  "anyhow",
  "bitcoin",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index d7c2a58a1..826d09d90 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "electrs"
-version = "0.9.14"
+version = "0.10.0-rc.1"
 authors = ["Roman Zeyde <me@romanzey.de>"]
 description = "An efficient re-implementation of Electrum Server in Rust"
 license = "MIT"
diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES.md b/RELEASE-NOTES.md
index 1f7b49ea7..524191345 100644
--- a/RELEASE-NOTES.md
+++ b/RELEASE-NOTES.md
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+# 0.10.0-rc.1 (TBD)
+
+* Bump MSRV to 1.63.0 and update Rust edition to 2021 (#773)
+* Update dependencies (`anyhow`, `configure_me_codegen`, `electrs-rocksdb`, `env_logger`, `parking_lot`, `prometheus`, `rayon`, `serde`, `serde_derive`, `serde_json`)
+  - Please note that [dynamic linking with RocksDB](doc/install.md) now requires [RocksDB 7.8.3](https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/librocksdb-dev) (instead of 6.11.4)!
+
 # 0.9.14 (Jun 10 2023)
 
 * Fix 'server.version' support for version range (#887)