diff --git a/qutebrowser/__init__.py b/qutebrowser/__init__.py
index 31fd5983f..4255c5e58 100644
--- a/qutebrowser/__init__.py
+++ b/qutebrowser/__init__.py
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ __copyright__ = "Copyright 2014-2018 Florian Bruhin (The Compiler)"
 __license__ = "GPL"
 __maintainer__ = __author__
 __email__ = "mail@qutebrowser.org"
-__version_info__ = (1, 2, 1)
+__version_info__ = (1, 3, 0)
 __version__ = '.'.join(str(e) for e in __version_info__)
 __description__ = "A keyboard-driven, vim-like browser based on PyQt5."