diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
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--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Package: googlesheets
 Title: Manage Google Spreadsheets from R
-Version: 0.2.2.9000
+Version: 0.3.0
 Authors@R: c(
     person("Jennifer", "Bryan", , "jenny@rstudio.com", c("aut", "cre")),
     person("Joanna", "Zhao", , "joanna.zhao@alumni.ubc.ca", role = "aut")
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
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--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,4 +1,7 @@
-# googlesheets 0.2.2.9000
+# googlesheets 0.3.0
+
+The motivation for this release is to avoid a warning on R-devel that occurs if 
+a package is referenced in the tests (in this case, tibble) that is not a direct dependency. We now use an equivalent function from the imported package dplyr.
 
 # googlesheets 0.2.2