diff --git a/WORKSPACE b/WORKSPACE
index e456dcaf48a..6e28fcd5577 100644
--- a/WORKSPACE
+++ b/WORKSPACE
@@ -11,8 +11,8 @@ load("//tensorflow_serving:repo.bzl", "tensorflow_http_archive")
 
 tensorflow_http_archive(
     name = "org_tensorflow",
-    sha256 = "e28ff36cbffde740421eff54804b1e79c7f95e2eeda04b765227242c41ac9ebf",
-    git_commit = "768844843859a721888fd325b2f9b361e09d58b1",
+    sha256 = "8ba460e7cc1d896105df4fee910f7b1fb29966575dd2a2385aa4296064a2a2e0",
+    git_commit = "63c13ff9b330682d136bc9219fa658f589b639f4",
 )
 
 load("@bazel_tools//tools/build_defs/repo:http.bzl", "http_archive")
diff --git a/tensorflow_serving/model_servers/BUILD b/tensorflow_serving/model_servers/BUILD
index 9d8a2f2c875..e08698728dd 100644
--- a/tensorflow_serving/model_servers/BUILD
+++ b/tensorflow_serving/model_servers/BUILD
@@ -454,7 +454,7 @@ pkg_deb(
     homepage = "https://github.com/tensorflow/serving",
     maintainer = "TensorFlow Serving team",
     package = "tensorflow-model-server",
-    version = "undefined",  # Set when releasing a new version of TensorFlow Serving (e.g. 1.0.0).
+    version = "1.13.0-rc1",  # Set when releasing a new version of TensorFlow Serving (e.g. 1.0.0).
 )
 
 # Build with '-c opt'
@@ -465,5 +465,5 @@ pkg_deb(
     homepage = "https://github.com/tensorflow/serving",
     maintainer = "TensorFlow Serving team",
     package = "tensorflow-model-server-universal",
-    version = "undefined",  # Set when releasing a new version of TensorFlow Serving (e.g. 1.0.0).
+    version = "1.13.0-rc1",  # Set when releasing a new version of TensorFlow Serving (e.g. 1.0.0).
 )
diff --git a/tensorflow_serving/model_servers/version.h b/tensorflow_serving/model_servers/version.h
index 5506eba2537..6e1412984a6 100644
--- a/tensorflow_serving/model_servers/version.h
+++ b/tensorflow_serving/model_servers/version.h
@@ -22,12 +22,12 @@ limitations under the License.
 #define TF_MODELSERVER_STR_HELPER(x) #x
 #define TF_MODELSERVER_STR(x) TF_MODELSERVER_STR_HELPER(x)
 
-#define TF_MODELSERVER_MAJOR_VERSION 0
-#define TF_MODELSERVER_MINOR_VERSION 0
+#define TF_MODELSERVER_MAJOR_VERSION 1
+#define TF_MODELSERVER_MINOR_VERSION 13
 #define TF_MODELSERVER_PATCH_VERSION 0
 // TF_MODELSERVER_VERSION_SUFFIX is non-empty for pre-releases
 // (e.g. "-alpha", "-alpha.1", "-beta", "-rc", "-rc.1")
-#define TF_MODELSERVER_VERSION_SUFFIX ""
+#define TF_MODELSERVER_VERSION_SUFFIX "-rc1"
 
 #ifndef TF_MODELSERVER_VERSION_NO_META
 // TF_MODELSERVER_BUILD_TAG can be set to be nightly for nightly builds
diff --git a/tensorflow_serving/tools/pip_package/setup.py b/tensorflow_serving/tools/pip_package/setup.py
index 73d42e56c14..052b5384f4e 100644
--- a/tensorflow_serving/tools/pip_package/setup.py
+++ b/tensorflow_serving/tools/pip_package/setup.py
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
 DOCLINES = __doc__.split('\n')
 
 # Set when releasing a new version of TensorFlow Serving (e.g. 1.0.0).
-_VERSION = '0.0.0'
+_VERSION = '1.13.0-rc1'
 
 project_name = 'tensorflow-serving-api'
 # Set when building the pip package