diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
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@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
-Version 3.0a3 2013-10-??
-* new support for FrameNet
-* API changes:
+Version 3.0a3 2013-11-02
+* support for FrameNet contributed by Chuck Wooters
+* support for Universal Declaration of Human Rights Corpus (udhr2)
+* major API changes:
   - Tree.node -> Tree.label() / Tree.set_label()
   - Chunk parser: top_node -> root_label; chunk_node -> chunk_label
   - WordNet properties are now access methods, e.g. Synset.definition -> Synset.definition()
@@ -9,6 +10,13 @@ Version 3.0a3 2013-10-??
 * replaced simplify_tags with support for universal tagset (simplify_tags=True -> tagset='universal')
 * Punkt default behavior changed to realign sentence boundaries after trailing parenthesis and quotes
 * deprecated classify.svm (use scikit-learn instead)
+* various efficiency improvements
+
+Thanks to the following contributors to 3.0a3:
+Lars Buitinck, Marcus Huderle, Nick Johnson, Dougal Graham, Ewan Klein,
+Mikhail Korobov, Haejoong Lee, Peter Ljunglöf, Dean Malmgren, Lance Nathan,
+Alexander Oleynikov, Nathan Schneider, Chuck Wooters, Yu Usami, Steven Xu,
+pquentin, wvanlint
 	
 Version 3.0a2 2013-07-12
 * speed improvements in word_tokenize, GAAClusterer, TnT tagger, Baum Welch, HMM tagger
diff --git a/nltk/VERSION b/nltk/VERSION
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@@ -1 +1 @@
-3.0a2
+3.0a3