diff --git a/Doxyfile b/Doxyfile
index 23669ea7..20e0cd93 100644
--- a/Doxyfile
+++ b/Doxyfile
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ PROJECT_NAME           = HTMLPurifier
 # This could be handy for archiving the generated documentation or 
 # if some version control system is used.
 
-PROJECT_NUMBER         = 2.1.3
+PROJECT_NUMBER         = 3.0.0
 
 # The OUTPUT_DIRECTORY tag is used to specify the (relative or absolute) 
 # base path where the generated documentation will be put. 
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index ac52ad2e..0ff188c4 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -9,14 +9,14 @@ NEWS ( CHANGELOG and HISTORY )                                     HTMLPurifier
     . Internal change
 ==========================
 
-3.0.0, unknown release date
+3.0.0, released 2008-01-06
 # HTML Purifier is PHP 5 only! The 2.1.x branch will be maintained
   until PHP 4 is completely deprecated, but no new features will be added
   to it.
   + Visibility declarations added
   + Constructor methods renamed to __construct()
   + PHP4 reference cruft removed (in progress)
-! CSS properties are no case-insensitive
+! CSS properties are now case-insensitive
 ! DefinitionCacheFactory now can register new implementations
 ! New HTMLPurifier_Filter_ExtractStyleBlocks for extracting <style> from
   documents and cleaning their contents up. Requires the CSSTidy library
diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index abae0d9a..4a36342f 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-2.1.3
\ No newline at end of file
+3.0.0
diff --git a/WHATSNEW b/WHATSNEW
index d3511d5d..25bc3afe 100644
--- a/WHATSNEW
+++ b/WHATSNEW
@@ -1,6 +1,10 @@
-Stability release 2.1.3 fixes a slew of minor bugs found in HTML Purifier,
-and also includes some internal code enhancements and refactorings.
-Notably, tests/multitest.php automates testing in multiple versions, 
-fatal AttrDef_URI_Email error fixed, blockquote contents are more lenient
-in HTML 4.01 Strict and fatal errors involving ID tags in img tags were
-fixed.
+Release 3.0.0 is the first release of 2008 and also HTML Purifier's first
+PHP 5 only release. The 2.1 series will still be supported for bug and
+security fixes, but will not get new features. This release a number of
+improvements in CSS handling, including the filter
+HTMLPurifier_Filter_ExtractStyleBlocks which integrates HTML Purifier with
+CSSTidy for cleaning style sheets, contains experimental support for
+proprietary CSS properties with %CSS.Proprietary, case-insensitive
+CSS properties, and more lenient hexadecimal color codes. Also, all code
+has been upgraded to full PHP 5 which is E_STRICT clean for all versions
+of PHP 5 (including the 5.0 series).
diff --git a/library/HTMLPurifier.php b/library/HTMLPurifier.php
index 825c2246..ab464c4e 100644
--- a/library/HTMLPurifier.php
+++ b/library/HTMLPurifier.php
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 <?php
 
-/*!
- * @mainpage
+/*! @mainpage
  * 
  * HTML Purifier is an HTML filter that will take an arbitrary snippet of
  * HTML and rigorously test, validate and filter it into a version that
@@ -22,8 +21,8 @@
  */
 
 /*
-    HTML Purifier 2.1.3 - Standards Compliant HTML Filtering
-    Copyright (C) 2006-2007 Edward Z. Yang
+    HTML Purifier 3.0.0 - Standards Compliant HTML Filtering
+    Copyright (C) 2006-2008 Edward Z. Yang
 
     This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
     modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
@@ -83,7 +82,7 @@ since 2.0.0.
 class HTMLPurifier
 {
     
-    public $version = '2.1.3';
+    public $version = '3.0.0';
     
     public $config;
     public $filters = array();
@@ -231,3 +230,4 @@ class HTMLPurifier
     
 }
 
+
diff --git a/library/HTMLPurifier/Config.php b/library/HTMLPurifier/Config.php
index 4c44f2b2..06ab1cfa 100644
--- a/library/HTMLPurifier/Config.php
+++ b/library/HTMLPurifier/Config.php
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ class HTMLPurifier_Config
     /**
      * HTML Purifier's version
      */
-    public $version = '2.1.3';
+    public $version = '3.0.0';
     
     /**
      * Bool indicator whether or not to automatically finalize 
@@ -492,3 +492,4 @@ class HTMLPurifier_Config
 }
 
 
+