diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md
index eca9c82f55b859259539c5561282dc7dceed68d8..d13dcb717efdfd16ad5dd6eb49ab1266560b9b6f 100644
--- a/CHANGES.md
+++ b/CHANGES.md
@@ -1,3 +1,13 @@
+Synapse 1.3.0 (2019-08-15)
+==========================
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- Fix 500 Internal Server Error on `publicRooms` when the public room list was
+  cached. ([\#5851](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5851))
+
+
 Synapse 1.3.0rc1 (2019-08-13)
 ==========================
 
diff --git a/changelog.d/5766.misc b/changelog.d/5766.misc
deleted file mode 100644
index 163ca2f0d454246fa0ff78e4c8d156b96f4b3ee1..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/changelog.d/5766.misc
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Remove libsqlite3-dev from required build dependencies.
diff --git a/changelog.d/5851.bugfix b/changelog.d/5851.bugfix
deleted file mode 100644
index 58f7c0c1b828604f8c32d142864c68893024c728..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/changelog.d/5851.bugfix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Fix 500 Internal Server Error on `publicRooms` when the public room list was
-cached.
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 55c28be8537a6f95b9bbf9607afd3ca0f8e95fe2..83232a0bad7a3e9102c2f211d2ed41cfbffcbf86 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-matrix-synapse-py3 (1.3.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
+matrix-synapse-py3 (1.3.0) stable; urgency=medium
 
   [ Andrew Morgan ]
   * Remove libsqlite3-dev from required build dependencies.
@@ -13,8 +13,9 @@ matrix-synapse-py3 (1.2.0) stable; urgency=medium
 
   [ Synapse Packaging team ]
   * New synapse release 1.2.0.
+  * New synapse release 1.3.0.
 
- -- Synapse Packaging team <packages@matrix.org>  Thu, 25 Jul 2019 14:10:07 +0100
+ -- Synapse Packaging team <packages@matrix.org>  Thu, 15 Aug 2019 12:04:23 +0100
 
 matrix-synapse-py3 (1.1.0) stable; urgency=medium
 
diff --git a/synapse/__init__.py b/synapse/__init__.py
index d2316c7df932c9e554215af2826b4a38b4ad8dd0..02ae90b0725f2202a5d42adc6bddffb1a3b51e5d 100644
--- a/synapse/__init__.py
+++ b/synapse/__init__.py
@@ -35,4 +35,4 @@ try:
 except ImportError:
     pass
 
-__version__ = "1.3.0rc1"
+__version__ = "1.3.0"