diff --git a/en/news/news.xml b/en/news/news.xml
index 99d94a465a..f9f2c57ed3 100644
--- a/en/news/news.xml
+++ b/en/news/news.xml
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
 <news>
   <cvs:keywords xmlns:cvs="http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/CVS" version="1.0">
     <cvs:keyword name="freebsd">
-      $FreeBSD: www/en/news/news.xml,v 1.288 2005/04/12 20:00:20 jylefort Exp $
+      $FreeBSD: www/en/news/news.xml,v 1.289 2005/04/13 16:59:50 qingli Exp $
     </cvs:keyword>
   </cvs:keywords>
 
@@ -31,6 +31,22 @@
     <month>
       <name>4</name>
 
+      <day>
+        <name>18</name>
+
+        <event>
+          <title>FreeBSD 5.4-RC3 Release Available</title>
+
+          <p>The FreeBSD 5.4-RC3 release is now available.
+            The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce
+            the availability of FreeBSD 5.4-RC3, the third Release
+            Candidate of the FreeBSD 5.4 release cycle.  The RC3 ISO images
+            and FTP based install support are available on most of the
+            <a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors-ftp.html"
+              >FreeBSD Mirror sites</a>.</p>
+        </event>
+      </day>
+
       <day>
         <name>13</name>