diff --git a/HISTORY.rst b/HISTORY.rst
index d7b0ec2..ecc54d9 100644
--- a/HISTORY.rst
+++ b/HISTORY.rst
@@ -2,14 +2,15 @@
 History
 #######
 
-*********
-3.0.0 TBD
-*********
+***********************
+3.0.0 (July 12th, 2021)
+***********************
 * **[general]** Breaking change: spaCy v3 required (closes `#8`_)
 * **[init_parser]** Breaking change: in all cases, :code:`is_tokenized` now disables sentence segmentation
 * **[init_parser]** Breaking change: no more default values for parser or model anywhere. Important to note here that
   spaCy does not work with short-hand codes such as ``en`` any more. You have to provide the full model name, e.g.
   ``en_core_web_sm``
+* **[init_parser]** Improvement: models are automatically downloaded for Stanza and UDPipe
 * **[cli]** Reworked the position of the CLI script in the directory structure as well as the arguments. Run
   :code:`parse-as-conll -h` for more information.
 * **[conllparser]** Made the `ConllParser`_ class available as a utility to easily create a wrapper for a spaCy-like
diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index e10774c..210b662 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -2,9 +2,6 @@
 Parsing to CoNLL with spaCy, spacy-stanza, and spacy-udpipe
 ===========================================================
 
-**This is a pre-release for the upcoming v3 of the library. If you experience any problems with it, please open a new**
-`issue`_
-
 **The last version to support spaCy v2 can be found** `here`_
 
 This module allows you to parse text into `CoNLL-U format`_. You can use it as a command line tool, or embed it in your
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 9b7f9ac..06a222b 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 
 setup(
     name="spacy_conll",
-    version="3.0.0-rc3",
+    version="3.0.0",
     description="A custom pipeline component for spaCy that can convert any parsed Doc"
                 " and its sentences into CoNLL-U format. Also provides a command line entry point.",
     long_description=Path("README.rst").read_text(encoding="utf-8"),
diff --git a/spacy_conll/__init__.py b/spacy_conll/__init__.py
index b081396..7baf6ea 100644
--- a/spacy_conll/__init__.py
+++ b/spacy_conll/__init__.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-__version__ = "3.0.0-rc3"
+__version__ = "3.0.0"
 
 from .formatter import ConllFormatter
 from .utils import init_parser