diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 02d09bf2b965adb9722c7ab45d3a86b11eda32c9..e77f91f0ba4a5c0a6e62b78a0af34f2bc1d93c63 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,8 +1,12 @@
 Changelog
 =========
 
-Unreleased
-----------
+[1.3.0] (2024-02-15)
+--------------------
+
+### Added
+
+- Compiled and added FFmpeg without LGPL libraries for license compliance
 
 [1.2.4] (2023-11-27)
 --------------------
@@ -157,6 +161,7 @@ Unreleased
 - mp3 support by using FFmpeg instead of librosa in #8
 - add language detection endpoint in #9
 
+[1.3.0]: https://github.com/ahmetoner/whisper-asr-webservice/releases/tag/v1.3.0
 [1.2.4]: https://github.com/ahmetoner/whisper-asr-webservice/releases/tag/v1.2.4
 [1.2.3]: https://github.com/ahmetoner/whisper-asr-webservice/releases/tag/v1.2.3
 [1.2.2]: https://github.com/ahmetoner/whisper-asr-webservice/releases/tag/v1.2.2
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 749642562a18c881018bc550c4453628e5208a7b..8515881ac9f78caddfae9c4fda2db78fbf104403 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 Whisper is a general-purpose speech recognition model. It is trained on a large dataset of diverse audio and is also a multitask model that can perform multilingual speech recognition as well as speech translation and language identification. For more details: [github.com/openai/whisper](https://github.com/openai/whisper/)
 
 ## Features
-Current release (v1.2.4) supports following whisper models:
+Current release (v1.3.0) supports following whisper models:
 
 - [openai/whisper](https://github.com/openai/whisper)@[v20231117](https://github.com/openai/whisper/releases/tag/v20231117)
 - [SYSTRAN/faster-whisper](https://github.com/SYSTRAN/faster-whisper)@[v0.10.0](https://github.com/SYSTRAN/faster-whisper/releases/tag/0.10.0)
diff --git a/docs/index.md b/docs/index.md
index c13def57e76031189810320190da4f802a550bc9..4aec352e85137a44740adf6d77a9c3f417329c6f 100644
--- a/docs/index.md
+++ b/docs/index.md
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Whisper is a general-purpose speech recognition model. It is trained on a large dataset of diverse audio and is also a multitask model that can perform multilingual speech recognition as well as speech translation and language identification.
 
 ## Features
-Current release (v1.2.4) supports following whisper models:
+Current release (v1.3.0) supports following whisper models:
 
 - [openai/whisper](https://github.com/openai/whisper)@[v20231117](https://github.com/openai/whisper/releases/tag/v20231117)
 - [SYSTRAN/faster-whisper](https://github.com/SYSTRAN/faster-whisper)@[v0.10.0](https://github.com/SYSTRAN/faster-whisper/releases/tag/0.10.0)
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index e4fb6dddf7763859ad99b02bf7525c3c04749e46..6b40597a92e7466be967f2fc0982def0348bf36d 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [tool.poetry]
 name = "whisper-asr-webservice"
-version = "1.2.5-dev"
+version = "1.3.0"
 description = "Whisper ASR Webservice is a general-purpose speech recognition webservice."
 homepage  = "https://github.com/ahmetoner/whisper-asr-webservice/"
 license = "https://github.com/ahmetoner/whisper-asr-webservice/blob/main/LICENCE"