diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index bce334b..15f3ea9 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+1.3.0
+=====
+- Fix progress bar grow direction in deskbar and vertical modes
+- set progressbar minimal width/height to 4px so that it looks like with gtk+2
+
 1.2.99
 =====
 - port to gtk+3/libxfce4ui-2/libxfce4panel-2.0
diff --git a/configure.ac.in b/configure.ac.in
index d98a08d..d2e189b 100644
--- a/configure.ac.in
+++ b/configure.ac.in
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ dnl Copyright 2010 Florian Rivoal <frivoal@xfce.org>
 dnl Copyright 2014 Mike Massonnet <mmassonnet@xfce.org>
 dnl
 
-m4_define([netload_version],[1.2.99])
+m4_define([netload_version],[1.3.0])
 
 AC_INIT([xfce4-netload-plugin], [netload_version],
 	[goodies-dev@xfce.org])