diff --git a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/kernel/linux-testing.nix b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/kernel/linux-testing.nix
index 01e7e315393..c3f3d3ce0cb 100644
--- a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/kernel/linux-testing.nix
+++ b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/kernel/linux-testing.nix
@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
 { stdenv, buildPackages, fetchurl, perl, buildLinux, libelf, utillinux, ... } @ args:
 
 buildLinux (args // rec {
-  version = "5.0-rc2";
-  modDirVersion = "5.0.0-rc2";
+  version = "5.0-rc3";
+  modDirVersion = "5.0.0-rc3";
   extraMeta.branch = "5.0";
 
   src = fetchurl {
     url = "https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/t/linux-${version}.tar.gz";
-    sha256 = "1204b15gkdb7hxaqx1x7kxn48p1gl8gl51vgifxn2saikzlzls7c";
+    sha256 = "03xw2zfa6cxy5vdfrfh536mh3gcm8hvj69ggpqixm8d1gqg0nln6";
   };
 
   # Should the testing kernels ever be built on Hydra?