diff --git a/share/xml/news.xml b/share/xml/news.xml
index cb4dd663e0..6afd9627ae 100644
--- a/share/xml/news.xml
+++ b/share/xml/news.xml
@@ -31,6 +31,27 @@
   <year>
     <name>2016</name>
 
+    <month>
+      <name>9</name>
+
+      <day>
+	<name>17</name>
+
+	<event>
+	  <title>&os;&nbsp;11.0-RC3 Available</title>
+
+	  <p>The third RC build for the &os;&nbsp;11.0 release
+	    cycle is now available.  ISO images for the amd64, armv6,
+	    i386, aarch64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64
+	    architectures are <a
+	      href="&lists.stable;/2016-September/085645.html">available</a>
+	    on most of our <a
+	      href="&url.doc.base-en;/books/handbook/mirrors-ftp.html">&os;
+	      mirror sites</a>.</p>
+	</event>
+      </day>
+    </month>
+
     <month>
       <name>8</name>