From a387de10d81ca0688c7cd267be6054efeca89e94 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Pradyun Gedam <pradyunsg@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2020 15:21:16 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Bump for release

---
 NEWS.rst             | 9 +++++++++
 news/9264.bugfix.rst | 1 -
 src/pip/__init__.py  | 2 +-
 3 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 news/9264.bugfix.rst

diff --git a/NEWS.rst b/NEWS.rst
index 80ad25ada..a082cddf3 100644
--- a/NEWS.rst
+++ b/NEWS.rst
@@ -9,6 +9,15 @@
 
 .. towncrier release notes start
 
+20.3.3 (2020-12-15)
+===================
+
+Bug Fixes
+---------
+
+- Revert "Skip candidate not providing valid metadata", as that caused pip to be overeager about downloading from the package index. (`#9264 <https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/9264>`_)
+
+
 20.3.2 (2020-12-15)
 ===================
 
diff --git a/news/9264.bugfix.rst b/news/9264.bugfix.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index 0178ab197..000000000
--- a/news/9264.bugfix.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Revert "Skip candidate not providing valid metadata", as that caused pip to be overeager about downloading from the package index.
diff --git a/src/pip/__init__.py b/src/pip/__init__.py
index ae0fe9a9f..41b291e61 100644
--- a/src/pip/__init__.py
+++ b/src/pip/__init__.py
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ if MYPY_CHECK_RUNNING:
     from typing import List, Optional
 
 
-__version__ = "21.0.dev0"
+__version__ = "20.3.3"
 
 
 def main(args=None):