diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index a279db2f6..053aa0b9c 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,14 @@
+3.30.0
+======
+
+Contributors:
+  Harry Mallon, Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
+
+Translators:
+  Fran Dieguez [gl], Trần Ngọc Quân [vi], Balázs Meskó [hu],
+  Rūdolfs Mazurs [lv], Jiri Grönroos [fi], Anders Jonsson [sv], gogo [hr],
+  Ask Hjorth Larsen [da]
+
 3.29.92
 =======
 * Choose some actors to cache on the GPU [Daniel; #792633]
diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index 47d1bc3da..beedc84cc 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 project('gnome-shell', 'c',
-  version: '3.29.92',
+  version: '3.30.0',
   meson_version: '>= 0.47.0',
   license: 'GPLv2+'
 )
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ gi_req = '>= 1.49.1'
 gjs_req = '>= 1.47.0'
 gtk_req = '>= 3.15.0'
 json_glib_req = '>= 0.13.2'
-mutter_req = '>= 3.29.92'
+mutter_req = '>= 3.30.0'
 polkit_req = '>= 0.100'
 schemas_req = '>= 3.27.90'
 startup_req = '>= 0.11'