diff --git a/CHANGES.html b/CHANGES.html
index f9d66cd57..71099d726 100644
--- a/CHANGES.html
+++ b/CHANGES.html
@@ -50,6 +50,25 @@ the cracks, unfortunately.  If you, as a user, can suggest improvements
 to this file based on your experience, please contribute a patch or drop
 us a note on ns-developers mailing list.</p>
 
+<hr>
+<h1>Changes from ns-3.33 to ns-3.34</h1>
+<h2>New API:</h2>
+<ul>
+<li></li>
+</ul>
+<h2>Changes to existing API:</h2>
+<ul>
+<li></li>
+</ul>
+<h2>Changes to build system:</h2>
+<ul>
+<li></li>
+</ul>
+<h2>Changed behavior:</h2>
+<ul>
+<li></li>
+</ul>
+
 <hr>
 <h1>Changes from ns-3.32 to ns-3.33</h1>
 <h2>New API:</h2>
diff --git a/RELEASE_NOTES b/RELEASE_NOTES
index 656b43ffe..d5e00c508 100644
--- a/RELEASE_NOTES
+++ b/RELEASE_NOTES
@@ -9,6 +9,27 @@ http://www.nsnam.org including tutorials: http://www.nsnam.org/tutorials.html
 Consult the file CHANGES.html for more detailed information about changed
 API and behavior across ns-3 releases.
 
+Release 3-dev
+=============
+
+Availability
+------------
+This release is not yet available.
+
+Supported platforms
+-------------------
+This release is intended to work on systems with the following minimal
+requirements (Note: not all ns-3 features are available on all systems):
+- g++-5.4 or later, or clang++-8 or later
+- Python 3.5 or later
+- (macOS only) Xcode 10.1 or later
+
+New user-visible features
+-------------------------
+
+Bugs fixed
+----------
+
 Release 3.33
 ============