diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 2257072..8699c4d 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -26,3 +26,4 @@ mdds_0.3.0.tar.bz2
 /mdds-1.2.1.tar.bz2
 /mdds-1.2.2.tar.bz2
 /mdds-1.2.3.tar.bz2
+/mdds-1.3.0.tar.bz2
diff --git a/mdds.spec b/mdds.spec
index 956a5af..0611104 100644
--- a/mdds.spec
+++ b/mdds.spec
@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@
 %global apiversion 1.2
 
 Name: mdds
-Version: 1.2.3
-Release: 4%{?dist}
+Version: 1.3.0
+Release: 1%{?dist}
 Summary: A collection of multi-dimensional data structures and indexing algorithms
 
 License: MIT
@@ -58,6 +58,9 @@ make check %{?_smp_mflags}
 %license COPYING
 
 %changelog
+* Wed Nov 01 2017 David Tardon <dtardon@redhat.com> - 1.3.0-1
+- new upstream release
+
 * Thu Aug 03 2017 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 1.2.3-4
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_27_Binutils_Mass_Rebuild
 
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index 529cd6b..f85f28c 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-SHA512 (mdds-1.2.3.tar.bz2) = e5935fd99a53df124532cfc8e46349b2ef9ca79f5f184ca2da941c9a77e66ee40e11478e520bf9cb62e1bcea4b69deab5088265e1b89fda04417130aab227c3d
+SHA512 (mdds-1.3.0.tar.bz2) = 9d2c3a69686ce3101fbdeeeb2d1e54ee62bbb26db9e67517d22d5dd13bcb2c3797c813195f81f7f970fe0be4509f55338b69730596f387f364ecbfee0bedf427