diff --git a/training/deepspeech_training/VERSION b/training/deepspeech_training/VERSION
index edcd751a..b8dd50a7 100644
--- a/training/deepspeech_training/VERSION
+++ b/training/deepspeech_training/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-0.8.0-alpha.2
+0.8.0-alpha.3