diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index d81f1c3..9325c3c 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-0.2.9
\ No newline at end of file
+0.3.0
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/docs/changelog.rst b/docs/changelog.rst
index cefcde3..40e82ff 100644
--- a/docs/changelog.rst
+++ b/docs/changelog.rst
@@ -2,9 +2,13 @@
 Changelog
 =========
 
-Version 0.2.9
+Version 0.3.0
 =============
 
+- [Variogram] some internal calculations were changed.
+- [DirectionalVariogram] - the circular search are is removed and raises a NotImplementedError
+- [DirectionalVariogram] - direction mask data is calculated way faster and without shapely involved.
+- shapely is not a dependency anymore
 - [unittests] - more unittests were added.
 
 Version 0.2.8
diff --git a/docs/conf.py b/docs/conf.py
index 36eb0ae..68eb79a 100644
--- a/docs/conf.py
+++ b/docs/conf.py
@@ -24,9 +24,9 @@
 author = 'Mirko Mälicke'
 
 # The short X.Y version
-version = '0.2.9'
+version = '0.3.0'
 # The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags
-release = '0.2.9'
+release = '0.3.0'
 
 
 # -- General configuration ---------------------------------------------------