diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 3f401e48..be04a566 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,7 +1,19 @@
+# CHANGELOG
+
 ## Pending
 
 ### Breaking changes
 
+### Features
+
+### Improvements
+
+### Bug fixes
+
+## v0.3.0
+
+### Breaking changes
+
 - [\#30](https://github.com/arkworks-rs/crypto-primitives/pull/30) Refactor the Merkle tree to separate the leaf hash and two-to-one hash.
 
 ### Features
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 759b7894..bb85cbde 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "ark-crypto-primitives"
-version = "0.2.0"
+version = "0.3.0"
 authors = [ "arkworks contributors" ]
 description = "A library of useful cryptographic primitives"
 homepage = "https://arkworks.rs"
@@ -15,19 +15,19 @@ edition = "2018"
 ################################# Dependencies ################################
 
 [dependencies]
-ark-ff = { version = "^0.2.0", default-features = false }
-ark-ec = { version = "^0.2.0", default-features = false }
-ark-std = { version = "^0.2.0", default-features = false }
-ark-relations = { version = "^0.2.0", default-features = false }
-ark-serialize = { version = "^0.2.0", default-features = false, features = [ "derive" ] }
+ark-ff = { version = "^0.3.0", default-features = false }
+ark-ec = { version = "^0.3.0", default-features = false }
+ark-std = { version = "^0.3.0", default-features = false }
+ark-relations = { version = "^0.3.0", default-features = false }
+ark-serialize = { version = "^0.3.0", default-features = false, features = [ "derive" ] }
 
 blake2 = { version = "0.9", default-features = false }
 digest = "0.9"
 
-ark-r1cs-std = { version = "^0.2.0", optional = true, default-features = false }
-ark-snark = { version = "^0.2.0", default-features = false }
+ark-r1cs-std = { version = "^0.3.0", optional = true, default-features = false }
+ark-snark = { version = "^0.3.0", default-features = false }
 
-ark-nonnative-field = { version = "^0.2.0", optional = true, default-features = false }
+ark-nonnative-field = { version = "^0.3.0", optional = true, default-features = false }
 
 rayon = { version = "1.0", optional = true }
 derivative = { version = "2.0", features = ["use_core"] }
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ parallel = [ "std", "rayon", "ark-ec/parallel", "ark-std/parallel", "ark-ff/para
 r1cs = [ "ark-r1cs-std", "tracing", "ark-nonnative-field" ]
 
 [dev-dependencies]
-ark-ed-on-bls12-381 = { version = "^0.2.0", default-features = false, features = [ "r1cs" ] }
-ark-bls12-377 = { version = "^0.2.0", default-features = false, features = [ "curve", "r1cs" ] }
-ark-mnt4-298 = { version = "^0.2.0", default-features = false, features = [ "curve", "r1cs" ] }
-ark-mnt6-298 = { version = "^0.2.0", default-features = false, features = [ "r1cs" ] }
+ark-ed-on-bls12-381 = { version = "^0.3.0", default-features = false, features = [ "r1cs" ] }
+ark-bls12-377 = { version = "^0.3.0", default-features = false, features = [ "curve", "r1cs" ] }
+ark-mnt4-298 = { version = "^0.3.0", default-features = false, features = [ "curve", "r1cs" ] }
+ark-mnt6-298 = { version = "^0.3.0", default-features = false, features = [ "r1cs" ] }
diff --git a/cp-benches/Cargo.toml b/cp-benches/Cargo.toml
index 87e20e86..7dbde8ae 100644
--- a/cp-benches/Cargo.toml
+++ b/cp-benches/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "cp-benches"
-version = "0.1.0"
+version = "0.3.0"
 authors = [ "arkworks contributors"]
 description = "Benchmarks for cryptographic primitivesthat are used by Zexe"
 repository = "https://github.com/arkworks-rs/crypto-primitives"
@@ -14,8 +14,8 @@ edition = "2018"
 
 [dev-dependencies]
 ark-crypto-primitives = { path = "../" }
-ark-ed-on-bls12-377 = { version = "^0.2.0", default-features = false }
-ark-std = { version = "^0.2.0", default-features = false }
+ark-ed-on-bls12-377 = { version = "^0.3.0", default-features = false }
+ark-std = { version = "^0.3.0", default-features = false }
 
 blake2 = { version = "0.9", default-features = false }
 criterion = "0.3.1"