diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 3074a1d56..3c88ec2dd 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -4,11 +4,12 @@ This project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/).
 
 ## Unreleased
 
+## [0.3.0] - 2019-12-20
 ### Changed
 - fix for output checking, custom verify functions are called just once
-- benchmarking returns multiple results not only time
+- benchmarking now returns multiple results not only time
 - more sophisticated implementation of genetic algorithm strategy
-- how the method to the strategy is passed, use strategy_options
+- how the "method" option is passed, now use strategy_options
 
 ### Added
 - Bayesian Optimizaton strategy, use strategy="bayes_opt"
diff --git a/CITATION.cff b/CITATION.cff
index 9a5fb7c39..c4c75e835 100644
--- a/CITATION.cff
+++ b/CITATION.cff
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ authors:
     name-particle: van
     orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7508-3272"
     email: "b.vanwerkhoven@esciencecenter.nl"
-date-released: 2017-11-23
+date-released: 2019-12-20
 doi: 10.5281/zenodo.1220113
 keywords: 
   - "GPU Computing"
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ references:
         email: "b.vanwerkhoven@esciencecenter.nl"
     title: "Kernel Tuner: A Search-Optimizing GPU Code Auto-Tuner"
     journal: "Future Generation Computer Systems"
-    year: 2018
+    year: 2019
 repository-code: "https://github.com/benvanwerkhoven/kernel_tuner"
 title: Kernel Tuner
-version: "0.2.0"
+version: "0.3.0"
diff --git a/doc/source/conf.py b/doc/source/conf.py
index beb874b27..ec2421a01 100644
--- a/doc/source/conf.py
+++ b/doc/source/conf.py
@@ -59,9 +59,9 @@
 # built documents.
 #
 # The short X.Y version.
-version = u'0.2.0'
+version = u'0.3.0'
 # The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags.
-release = u'0.2.0'
+release = u'0.3.0'
 
 # The language for content autogenerated by Sphinx. Refer to documentation
 # for a list of supported languages.
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 96fe57d89..be8c9a650 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ def readme():
 
 setup(
     name="kernel_tuner",
-    version="0.2.0",
+    version="0.3.0",
     author="Ben van Werkhoven",
     author_email="b.vanwerkhoven@esciencecenter.nl",
     description=("An easy to use CUDA/OpenCL kernel tuner in Python"),