diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index c13a85435..718ddec04 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ Description: As a pipeline toolkit for Statistics and data science in R,
   the underlying code and data. The methodology in this package
   borrows from GNU 'Make' (2015, ISBN:978-9881443519)
   and 'drake' (2018, <doi:10.21105/joss.00550>).
-Version: 0.2.0.9001
+Version: 0.3.0
 License: MIT + file LICENSE
 URL: https://docs.ropensci.org/targets/, https://github.com/ropensci/targets
 BugReports: https://github.com/ropensci/targets/issues
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index a05992b81..8a096a456 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# targets 0.2.0.9001
+# targets 0.3.0
 
 ## Bug fixes