diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index f50c025a785d13f74419409a4c019ada30fce754..ef71d754167c324d3818b82847d90fb2ccc36056 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ KleidiAI follows the [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/) specification fo
 
 ## Upcoming Release
 
+# v1.3.0
+
 - Update FP16 example to use NHWC input
 - Add MSVC support for kai_matmul_clamp_f32_qai8dxp_qsi4c32p micro-kernels.
 - Fixes:
diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 19675fbfbad8d94fa9434451b2a07eebd842b6cd..7759cfa885299a0f53405cb3c8fe7077aee9bf48 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.16)
 
 project(KleidiAI
-    VERSION 1.2.0
+    VERSION 1.3.0
     LANGUAGES C CXX
 )
 
diff --git a/kai/kai_common.h b/kai/kai_common.h
index 79b08978378409a2c7e1e2846cf675be402339b8..26ff525ef7bde304626b32a811fbabd504fd574a 100644
--- a/kai/kai_common.h
+++ b/kai/kai_common.h
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ extern "C" {
 ///
 /// @return Project version as a string literal.
 inline const char* kai_get_version(void) {
-    return "1.2.0";
+    return "1.3.0";
 }
 
 /// KleidiAI data types