diff --git a/CITATION.cff b/CITATION.cff
index 2279146d7..949c6bbe9 100644
--- a/CITATION.cff
+++ b/CITATION.cff
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ date-released: "2016-08-17"
 url: "https://automl.github.io/SMAC3/master/index.html"
 repository-code: "https://github.com/automl/SMAC3"
 
-version: "2.2.0"
+version: "2.3.0"
 
 type: "software"
 keywords:
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index aade064b3..c1b56afd5 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ SHELL := /bin/bash
 
 NAME := SMAC3
 PACKAGE_NAME := smac
-VERSION := 2.2.0
+VERSION := 2.3.0
 
 DIR := "${CURDIR}"
 SOURCE_DIR := ${PACKAGE_NAME}
diff --git a/smac/__init__.py b/smac/__init__.py
index 439dc48fa..d29ce50c2 100644
--- a/smac/__init__.py
+++ b/smac/__init__.py
@@ -16,10 +16,10 @@
     "Source Code": "https://github.com/automl/SMAC3",
 }
 copyright = f"""
-    Copyright {datetime.date.today().strftime('%Y')}, Marius Lindauer, Katharina Eggensperger,
-    Matthias Feurer, André Biedenkapp, Difan Deng, Carolin Benjamins, Tim Ruhkopf, René Sass
-    and Frank Hutter"""
-version = "2.2.0"
+Copyright {datetime.date.today().strftime('%Y')}, Marius Lindauer, Katharina Eggensperger, 
+Matthias Feurer, André Biedenkapp, Difan Deng, Carolin Benjamins, Tim Ruhkopf, René Sass
+and Frank Hutter"""
+version = "2.3.0"
 
 
 try: