diff --git a/CHANGES-3.3 b/CHANGES-3.3
index 4923dac97..d5c9a5e7f 100644
--- a/CHANGES-3.3
+++ b/CHANGES-3.3
@@ -23,6 +23,9 @@ Users (distributions) are **strongly** advised to use the tools
 for configuration validation (`ci/configvalidator.py`) to check
 that the distribution configuration files follow the current schema.
 
+Pre-release versions:
+ - 3.3.0-alpha1 (2022-06-27)
+
 ## Project ##
  - The C++ code in the project is now formatted with clang-format 12 or 13,
    with the coding-style as found in `.clang-format`; there are minor