diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 13826e9..7110917 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-Unreleased Changes
+1.3.0 (2016-07-07)
 ------------------
 
 * Restored support for legacy unquoted string literals.
diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index e8ea05d..f0bb29e 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-1.2.4
+1.3.0
diff --git a/lib/jmespath/version.rb b/lib/jmespath/version.rb
index 6fc614f..d170127 100644
--- a/lib/jmespath/version.rb
+++ b/lib/jmespath/version.rb
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 module JMESPath
-  VERSION = '1.2.4'
+  VERSION = '1.3.0'
 end