diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index e172b6c3f9641f924b21893555fca24d8dc3d8f6..0e9336f0d6300e555703128e5565da79e2721fb7 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -16,8 +16,8 @@ build:deb:
   script:
     - export commit=$(git log -n 1 --oneline | sed 's/ .*$//')
     - export version=$(sed -ne 's/^[^(]*(\([^)]*\)).*/\1/;1p' debian/changelog)
-    - export new_version="${version}+${CI_BUILD_ID}.${commit}"
-    - dch -D unstable --newversion "$new_version" "automatic GitLab CI build ${CI_BUILD_ID}"
+
+
     - dpkg-buildpackage
     - mkdir build
     - mv -v ../aegir3*.deb build/
diff --git a/aegir-release.make b/aegir-release.make
index b6999da54c86b247240ad4cd8541343bc16fba51..6da6dafe474994f60aa14fdd297f520e9cf3fa3d 100644
--- a/aegir-release.make
+++ b/aegir-release.make
@@ -5,6 +5,6 @@ api = 2
 projects[drupal][type] = "core"
 
 ; The release.sh script updates the version of hostmaster.
-projects[hostmaster][version] = "7.x-3.0-dev"
+projects[hostmaster][version] = "3.11-beta1"
 projects[hostmaster][type] = "profile"
 projects[hostmaster][variant] = "projects"
diff --git a/aegir.make b/aegir.make
deleted file mode 100644
index d1357cc84ef36ce883a105d1a5d6da21cc190ab1..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/aegir.make
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
-core = 7.x
-api = 2
-
-projects[drupal][type] = "core"
-
-projects[hostmaster][type] = "profile"
-projects[hostmaster][download][type] = "git"
-projects[hostmaster][download][url] = "http://git.drupal.org/project/hostmaster.git"
-projects[hostmaster][download][branch] = "7.x-3.x"
-
diff --git a/aegir.make b/aegir.make
new file mode 120000
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f6e35b975feae015d21a03f4812e212d0079b010
--- /dev/null
+++ b/aegir.make
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+aegir-release.make
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 58c421240d368f6d5d8dd63f882065d67f56d08b..1f5b8ba6d6558e68cdf191d512dc6b9a64155fba 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+aegir3-provision (3.11~beta1) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  * Preparations for the 3.11 release, testing the GitLab build process.
+  * Many bugfixes and UI improvements, see http://aegir.readthedocs.org/en/3.x/release-notes/3.11
+
+ -- Herman van Rink <helmo@initfour.nl>  Thu, 18 May 2017 14:28:24 +0200
+
 aegir3-provision (3.10) unstable; urgency=medium
 
   * Many bugfixes and UI improvements, see http://aegir.readthedocs.org/en/3.x/release-notes/3.10
diff --git a/provision.info b/provision.info
index 6f0191608fab3199092e85ac1c82308fcadba9a7..f7bdafa4f613292d0ca4fefa77075233624f55e3 100644
--- a/provision.info
+++ b/provision.info
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 name=Provision
 description="Aegir backend"
 
-version=7.x-3.x
+version=7.x-3.11-beta1
diff --git a/upgrade.sh.txt b/upgrade.sh.txt
index c325c3f3b40dc75d0c56296040827970ce4d285f..f8d1f7c79317ac859ff3eddb9b98597b300c4799 100644
--- a/upgrade.sh.txt
+++ b/upgrade.sh.txt
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 ########################################################################
 
 # Basic variables, change before running.
-AEGIR_VERSION="7.x-3.x"
+AEGIR_VERSION="7.x-3.11-beta1"
 NEW_DRUSH_VERSION="stable"  # e.g stable, unstable, ignore or a version number like 8.1.3
 
 # Extra variables, no changes needed for most use-cases.