diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 01cbbb1..c3fa498 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ adhere to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html).
 
 ## [Unreleased]
 
+## [0.3.0] - 2026-08-09
+
 ### Added
 
 - gmlx chat --server: chat against a running server as a plain client,
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 54ad3a4..370f74f 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
 
 [project]
 name = "gmlx"
-version = "0.2.2"
+version = "0.3.0"
 description = "A local inference platform for Apple Silicon: run, chat with, serve, and fine-tune the GGUF ecosystem's quantized models natively on MLX, straight off the file."
 readme = "README.md"
 requires-python = ">=3.11"  # 3.10 EOLs 2026-10; mlx-kquant's lower floor is a library floor