diff --git a/ChangeLog.md b/ChangeLog.md
index 936969d..0324391 100644
--- a/ChangeLog.md
+++ b/ChangeLog.md
@@ -3,6 +3,19 @@ Change Log
 
 All notable changes to the project are documented in this file.
 
+
+[v1.3.0][] - 2016-01-22
+-----------------------
+
+### Changes
+- Change to GNU configure and build system
+- Default optimization is now -O2, not -Os, which can be a bit
+  unpredictable with some cross compiler toolchains.  -O2 is
+  the tried and tested path, and default in autotools
+- Added `-Wextra` to the previous `-W -Wall`, drop `-Werror`
+  which is supposed to be used by maintainer(s) only.
+
+
 [v1.2.4][] - 2015-11-23
 -----------------------
 
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 5658c96..4fc47e6 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Use v2.61 for backwards compat with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
 AC_PREREQ([2.61])
-AC_INIT(libuEv, 1.3.0-dev, https://github.com/troglobit/libuev/issues, libuev)
+AC_INIT(libuEv, 1.3.0, https://github.com/troglobit/libuev/issues, libuev)
 AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([1.11 foreign no-dist-gzip dist-xz])
 AM_SILENT_RULES([yes])