diff --git a/sentence_transformers/__init__.py b/sentence_transformers/__init__.py
index 488a4b9fa..722977186 100644
--- a/sentence_transformers/__init__.py
+++ b/sentence_transformers/__init__.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-__version__ = "3.0.0.dev0"
+__version__ = "3.0.0"
 __MODEL_HUB_ORGANIZATION__ = "sentence-transformers"
 
 import importlib
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 2ad8457ae..bb812ac36 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -6,8 +6,8 @@
 
 setup(
     name="sentence-transformers",
-    version="3.0.0.dev0",
-    author="Nils Reimers",
+    version="3.0.0",
+    author="Nils Reimers, Tom Aarsen",
     author_email="info@nils-reimers.de",
     description="Multilingual text embeddings",
     long_description=readme,