diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 29220e0..498ca11 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Each release's binaries and full notes are on the
 [releases page](https://github.com/DylanCosto/bonefish/releases). "Output" means the alignment
 records. Each entry quotes the MD5 of the genome-wide HG001 sample's SAM output, `@PG` lines removed.
 
-## v0.3.0 (unreleased)
+## v0.3.0 (2026-10-21)
 
 **New: `-x tx`.** The preset maps direct RNA or cDNA to a transcriptome for quantifiers such as
 oarfish and NanoCount (minimap2 `-ax map-ont -N 100`).
diff --git a/CITATION.cff b/CITATION.cff
index 5ee6e24..fa4c35d 100644
--- a/CITATION.cff
+++ b/CITATION.cff
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ type: software
 authors:
   - family-names: Costo
     given-names: Dylan
-version: 0.2.0
+version: 0.3.0
 date-released: 2026-10-21
 license: MIT
 repository-code: "https://github.com/DylanCosto/bonefish"
diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 45550e3..f138ef0 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ checksum = "843867be96c8daad0d758b57df9392b6d8d271134fce549de6ce169ff98a92af"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "bonefish"
-version = "0.2.0"
+version = "0.3.0"
 dependencies = [
  "anyhow",
  "bonefish-core",
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "bonefish-core"
-version = "0.2.0"
+version = "0.3.0"
 dependencies = [
  "anyhow",
  "bincode",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 70d21fc..72c5803 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ resolver = "2"
 members = ["bonefish-core", "bonefish"]
 
 [workspace.package]
-version = "0.2.0"
+version = "0.3.0"
 edition = "2024"
 license = "MIT"
 repository = "https://github.com/DylanCosto/bonefish"
diff --git a/bonefish/Cargo.toml b/bonefish/Cargo.toml
index c25297b..b4ea472 100644
--- a/bonefish/Cargo.toml
+++ b/bonefish/Cargo.toml
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ jemalloc = ["dep:tikv-jemallocator"]
 mimalloc = ["dep:mimalloc"]
 
 [dependencies]
-bonefish-core = { path = "../bonefish-core", version = "0.2.0", default-features = false }
+bonefish-core = { path = "../bonefish-core", version = "0.3.0", default-features = false }
 clap = { version = "4", features = ["derive"] }
 env_logger = "0.11"
 log = "0.4"