diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES
index 0625507..ade4df6 100644
--- a/RELEASE-NOTES
+++ b/RELEASE-NOTES
@@ -1,35 +1,17 @@
-libssh2 1.2.9
+libssh2 1.3.0
 
 This release includes the following changes:
 
- o Added libssh2_session_set_timeout() and libssh2_session_get_timeout()
-   to make blocking calls get a timeout
+ o 
 
 This release includes the following bugfixes:
 
- o configure and pkg-config: fix $VERSION
- o s/\.NF/.nf/ to fix wrong macro name caught by man --warnings
- o keepalive: add first basic man pages
- o sftp_write: flush the packetlist on error
- o sftp_write: clean offsets on error
- o msvcproj: added libs and debug stuff
- o SCP: fix incorrect error code
- o session_startup: init state properly
- o sftp_write_sliding: send the complete file
- o userauth_keyboard_interactive: skip code on zero length auth
- o _libssh2_wait_socket: fix timeouts for poll() uses
- o agent_list_identities: fix out of scope access
- o _libssh2_recv(): handle ENOENT error as EAGAIN
- o userauth_keyboard_interactive: fix buffer overflow
- o removed man pages for non-existing functions!
- o gettimeofday: fix name space pollution
- o _libssh2_channel_write: handle window_size == 0 better
+ o 
+
 
 This release would not have looked like this without help, code, reports and
 advice from friends like these:
 
- Alfred Gebert, Dan Fandrich, Douglas Masterson, Guenter Knauf, Matt Lilley,
- Mikhail Gusarov, Peter Stuge, zl liu, Paul Howarth, Mark Smith, Bill Segall,
- Henrik Nordström
+ 
  
         Thanks! (and sorry if I forgot to mention someone)
diff --git a/include/libssh2.h b/include/libssh2.h
index 2a997ae..57fe2c6 100644
--- a/include/libssh2.h
+++ b/include/libssh2.h
@@ -46,13 +46,13 @@
    to make the BANNER define (used by src/session.c) be a valid SSH
    banner. Release versions have no appended strings and may of course not
    have dashes either. */
-#define LIBSSH2_VERSION                             "1.2.9_DEV"
+#define LIBSSH2_VERSION                             "1.3.0_DEV"
 
 /* The numeric version number is also available "in parts" by using these
    defines: */
 #define LIBSSH2_VERSION_MAJOR                       1
-#define LIBSSH2_VERSION_MINOR                       2
-#define LIBSSH2_VERSION_PATCH                       9
+#define LIBSSH2_VERSION_MINOR                       3
+#define LIBSSH2_VERSION_PATCH                       0
 
 /* This is the numeric version of the libssh2 version number, meant for easier
    parsing and comparions by programs. The LIBSSH2_VERSION_NUM define will
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@
    and it is always a greater number in a more recent release. It makes
    comparisons with greater than and less than work.
 */
-#define LIBSSH2_VERSION_NUM                         0x010209
+#define LIBSSH2_VERSION_NUM                         0x010300
 
 /*
  * This is the date and time when the full source package was created. The