diff --git a/README.adoc b/README.adoc
index aca9c1f57..89cd1c8d9 100644
--- a/README.adoc
+++ b/README.adoc
@@ -23,13 +23,12 @@ Fast forward to the cloud-era, where microservices have become prominent in the
 To extend this to Data Integration workloads, Spring Integration and Spring Boot were put together into a new project. Spring Cloud Stream was born.
 
 With Spring Cloud Stream, developers can:
-
- * Build, test, iterate, and deploy data-centric applications in isolation.
- * Apply modern microservices architecture patterns, including composition through messaging.
- * Decouple application responsibilities with event-centric thinking. An event can represent something that has happened in time, to which the downstream consumer applications can react without knowing where it originated or the producer's identity.
- * Port the business logic onto message brokers (such as RabbitMQ, Apache Kafka, Amazon Kinesis).
- * Interoperate between channel-based and non-channel-based application binding scenarios to support stateless and stateful computations by using Project Reactor's Flux and Kafka Streams APIs.
- * Rely on the framework's automatic content-type support for common use-cases. Extending to different data conversion types is possible.
+* Build, test, iterate, and deploy data-centric applications in isolation.
+* Apply modern microservices architecture patterns, including composition through messaging.
+* Decouple application responsibilities with event-centric thinking. An event can represent something that has happened in time, to which the downstream consumer applications can react without knowing where it originated or the producer's identity.
+* Port the business logic onto message brokers (such as RabbitMQ, Apache Kafka, Amazon Kinesis).
+* Interoperate between channel-based and non-channel-based application binding scenarios to support stateless and stateful computations by using Project Reactor's Flux and Kafka Streams APIs.
+* Rely on the framework's automatic content-type support for common use-cases. Extending to different data conversion types is possible.
 
 == Quick Start
 
@@ -63,8 +62,14 @@ For example, you can choose Gradle as your build tool instead of Maven (the defa
 +
 The value of the *Artifact* field becomes the application name.
 If you chose RabbitMQ for the middleware, your Spring Initializr should now be as follows:
-+
-image::{github-raw}/docs/src/main/asciidoc/images/spring-initializr.png[Spring Initializr]
+
+[%hardbreaks]
+[%hardbreaks]
+[%hardbreaks]
+image::{github-raw}/docs/src/main/asciidoc/images/spring-initializr.png[align="center"]
+
+[%hardbreaks]
+[%hardbreaks]
 
 . Click the *Generate Project* button.
 +
@@ -406,4 +411,4 @@ added after the original pull request but before a merge.
   if you are fixing an existing issue please add `Fixes gh-XXXX` at the end of the commit
   message (where XXXX is the issue number).
 
-// ======================================================================================
+// ======================================================================================
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 1643ab2d0..008dc5c59 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
     <parent>
         <groupId>org.springframework.cloud</groupId>
         <artifactId>spring-cloud-build</artifactId>
-        <version>2.1.0.BUILD-SNAPSHOT</version>
+        <version>2.1.0.RC3</version>
         <relativePath/>
     </parent>
     <scm>
diff --git a/spring-cloud-stream-tools/pom.xml b/spring-cloud-stream-tools/pom.xml
index a22e56c9f..3a2c5d4bf 100644
--- a/spring-cloud-stream-tools/pom.xml
+++ b/spring-cloud-stream-tools/pom.xml
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
     <parent>
         <groupId>org.springframework.cloud</groupId>
         <artifactId>spring-cloud-build</artifactId>
-        <version>2.1.0.BUILD-SNAPSHOT</version>
+        <version>2.1.0.RC3</version>
         <relativePath />
     </parent>