diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index b91717c..b2ac960 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -7,6 +7,13 @@ and this project follows [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.ht
 
 ## [Unreleased]
 
+## [0.3.0] - 2026-10-01
+
+Built against drasi-lib 0.9. This is a minor release because two behaviour
+changes can break a setup that worked on 0.2.0: a durable reaction now needs a
+persistent index store, and a failing reaction callback follows its recovery
+policy instead of logging and continuing.
+
 ### Changed
 
 - Built against drasi-lib 0.9.3, drasi-core 0.5.10, drasi-host-sdk 0.11.3 and
diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 1b62c99..bd08b61 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -886,7 +886,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "drasi-python"
-version = "0.2.0"
+version = "0.3.0"
 dependencies = [
  "anyhow",
  "async-trait",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index e2bef57..70929fe 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "drasi-python"
-version = "0.2.0"
+version = "0.3.0"
 edition = "2021"
 rust-version = "1.83"
 description = "Python bindings for the embeddable Drasi continuous-query engine"
diff --git a/docs/releasing.md b/docs/releasing.md
index 40ed31a..5e0f7c5 100644
--- a/docs/releasing.md
+++ b/docs/releasing.md
@@ -159,8 +159,8 @@ To rehearse without touching the real index, repeat the setup on
 3. Create and push a signed tag matching the package version:
 
    ```bash
-   git tag -s v0.2.0 -m "v0.2.0"
-   git push origin v0.2.0
+   git tag -s v0.3.0 -m "v0.3.0"
+   git push origin v0.3.0
    ```
 
 4. The release workflow should build abi3 wheels for the supported Linux,
@@ -177,11 +177,11 @@ version:
 
 ```bash
 uv venv --python 3.12 .release-check
-uv pip install --python .release-check/bin/python drasi-lib==0.2.0
+uv pip install --python .release-check/bin/python drasi-lib==0.3.0
 .release-check/bin/python - <<'PY'
 import drasi
 
-assert drasi.__version__ == "0.2.0", drasi.__version__
+assert drasi.__version__ == "0.3.0", drasi.__version__
 assert ".release-check" in drasi.__file__, f"import leaked from {drasi.__file__}"
 print(drasi.host_info())
 PY