diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 0905579fe..5b7acdc18 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -6,6 +6,11 @@ The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](http://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/)
 and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html).
 
 ## [Unreleased]
+
+## [1.3.0] - 2018-01-24
+
+### Added
+- Added SQLite3 based corpus storage for on-disk shuffling etc. with `--sqlite`
 - Added asynchronous maxi-batch preloading
 - Using transpose in SGEMM to tie embeddings in output layer
 
diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index 6a5e98a74..18fa8e74f 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-v1.2.1
+v1.3.0