diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 7bc5647..ec708e6 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ cmake_minimum_required (VERSION 2.6)
 project (roxml C)
 
 set (VERSION "2")
-set (SOVERSION "2.3.0")
+set (SOVERSION "3.0.0")
 
 option(CONFIG_XML_FILE   "Can the target library parse file documents. When set to OFF, this result in smaller binary." ON)
 option(CONFIG_XML_EDIT   "Can the target library modify XML tree. When set to OFF, this result in smaller binary (this saves about 3kb)" ON)
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 9145d97..5dd25f7 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #                                               -*- Autoconf -*-
 # Process this file with autoconf to produce a configure script.
-m4_define([MAJOR_VERSION], 2)
-m4_define([MINOR_VERSION], 3)
+m4_define([MAJOR_VERSION], 3)
+m4_define([MINOR_VERSION], 0)
 m4_define([MICRO_VERSION], 0)
 
 AC_PREREQ(2.59)
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 298b52b..28e9921 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,30 @@
+libroxml (3.0.0-1) unstable; urgency=low
+  * Add
+      External linkage support for c++ projects
+      Replace list parse engine with map based one
+      Roxml_commit_file(), roxml_commit_fd() and roxml_commit_buffer() helpers
+      Subtree display too roxml tool
+      Rocat tool
+      Optional disabling support of float XML values
+      Basic XML validation during parsing
+      Header for all the source files updated to SPDX
+      Parser function locality
+      Global code refactor
+      Add support for XPath function local-name()
+      Update documentation
+
+  * Bugfixes
+      Fix tests
+      Fix various compilation warnings
+      Fix potential overflow and memory-leak related to namespace parsing
+      Fix CMake builds
+      Fix recursive delete of malformed tree
+      Fix wrong calculation for buffer realloc during commit
+      Fix spurious colon in default namespace
+
+
+ -- Tristan Lelong <tristan.lelong@libroxml.net>  Fri, 03 Mar 2017 23:22:18 +0000
+
 libroxml (2.3.0-1) unstable; urgency=low
   * Add
       switch to autotools
diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index a3ba5d7..647ce85 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #export DH_VERBOSE=1
 
 # shared library versions, option 1
-version=2.3.0
+version=3.0.0
 major=2
 LD_LIBRARY_PATH:=$(LD_LIBRARY_PATH):.
 
diff --git a/libroxml.spec b/libroxml.spec
index 430eeb4..ca0bff3 100644
--- a/libroxml.spec
+++ b/libroxml.spec
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 %define name libroxml
-%define version 2.3.0
+%define version 3.0.0
 %define release 1
 
 Summary: a light and powerful C xml parsing library