Update in preparation for 14.3-RELEASErelease/14.3.0releng/14.3

- Bump BRANCH to RELEASE
- Add the anticipated RELEASE announcement date
- Set a static __FreeBSD_version

Approved by:	re (implicit)
Sponsored by:	Amazon

3 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/UPDATING b/UPDATING
index 3227b70ac69c..75c40967a1ae 100644
--- a/UPDATING
+++ b/UPDATING
@@ -12,6 +12,9 @@ Items affecting the ports and packages system can be found in
 /usr/ports/UPDATING.  Please read that file before updating system packages
 and/or ports.
 
+20250610:
+	14.3-RELEASE.
+
 20250419:
 	LinuxKPI alloc routines were changed to return physically contiguous
 	memory where expected. These changes may require out-of-tree drivers
diff --git a/lib/csu/common/crtbrand.S b/lib/csu/common/crtbrand.S
index a06f72daa99d..86e9d648538e 100644
--- a/lib/csu/common/crtbrand.S
+++ b/lib/csu/common/crtbrand.S
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
 	.4byte		NT_FREEBSD_ABI_TAG
 1:	.asciz		NOTE_FREEBSD_VENDOR
 2:	.p2align	2
-3:	.4byte		__FreeBSD_version
+3:	.4byte		1403000
 4:
 
 	.section .note.GNU-stack,"",%progbits
diff --git a/sys/conf/newvers.sh b/sys/conf/newvers.sh
index 1ebacc6cc176..f3815c0d9b16 100644
--- a/sys/conf/newvers.sh
+++ b/sys/conf/newvers.sh
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@
 
 TYPE="FreeBSD"
 REVISION="14.3"
-BRANCH="RC1"
+BRANCH="RELEASE"
 if [ -n "${BRANCH_OVERRIDE}" ]; then
 	BRANCH=${BRANCH_OVERRIDE}
 fi