diff --git a/docs/source/release.rst b/docs/source/release.rst
index 4cf56a9..92e75d2 100644
--- a/docs/source/release.rst
+++ b/docs/source/release.rst
@@ -5,6 +5,15 @@ These are informal release notes for gabbi since version 1.0.0,
 highlighting major features and changes. For more detail see
 the `commit logs`_ on GitHub.
 
+3.0.0
+-----
+
+* Add support for regular expressions in ``response_strings`` values.
+
+This is being done as a major release because it has a chance of breaking
+existing tests that use response_strings values that look like regular
+expressions but are not.
+
 2.11.0
 -----
 
diff --git a/gabbi/__init__.py b/gabbi/__init__.py
index bd4690e..c795635 100644
--- a/gabbi/__init__.py
+++ b/gabbi/__init__.py
@@ -12,4 +12,4 @@
 # under the License.
 """See gabbi.driver and gabbbi.case."""
 
-__version__ = '2.11.0'
+__version__ = '3.0.0'