diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 1b1507c1..04c80c70 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 # apt Cookbook CHANGELOG
-
-## UNRELEASED
+## 3.0.0 (2015-03-01)
 - Removed Chef 10 compatibility code. This cookbook requires Chef 11 or greater now
 - The default recipe will no longer create /etc/apt/ and other directories on non-Debian based systems
 - Updated the autoremove command in the default recipe to run in non-interactive mode
@@ -11,6 +10,7 @@
 - Resolved or disabled all Rubocop warnings
 - Enabled testing in Travis CI
 - Removed Apt Cacher NG support for Ubuntu 10.04 and Debian 6.X as they are both deprecated
+- Fixed + signs in packages names with the preference LWRP being rejected
 
 ## v2.9.2
 - #168 Adding guard to package resource.
diff --git a/metadata.rb b/metadata.rb
index 73f9a67c..b504a7bc 100644
--- a/metadata.rb
+++ b/metadata.rb
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 license 'Apache 2.0'
 description 'Configures apt and apt services. Ships resources for managing apt repositories'
 long_description IO.read(File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), 'README.md'))
-version '2.9.2'
+version '3.0.0'
 
 recipe 'apt::default', 'Runs apt-get update during compile phase and sets up preseed directories'
 recipe 'apt::cacher-ng', 'Set up an apt-cacher-ng caching proxy'