diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 71ab10a..67f4aee 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+0.3.0
+    Prepare release 0.3.0
+    Updates french translations (100%) and italian (45%)
+    Allow title text to be displayed on two lines
+    Allow resizing the window icon
+    Fix DEFAULT_SYNC_WM_FONT case formating
+    Fix #7 Window title widget vertical align
 0.2.5
     Add option to sync font with window manager for title plugin
     Change show_window_menu option behaviour
diff --git a/README b/README
index c31e02a..54ff025 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -30,6 +30,8 @@ Installation
             xfce4-panel
 To build:   intltool, xfce4-dev-tools
 
+For Xubuntu: intltool xfce4-dev-tools xfce4-panel-dev libgtk2.0-dev libglib2.0-dev libxfce4ui-2-dev libxfce4-util-dev libwnck-dev.
+
 2) Generate common makefiles:
 Run ./autogen.sh --prefix=usr
 
diff --git a/configure.ac.in b/configure.ac.in
index e080126..20f55b3 100644
--- a/configure.ac.in
+++ b/configure.ac.in
@@ -9,8 +9,8 @@ dnl ***************************
 dnl *** Version information ***
 dnl ***************************
 m4_define([windowck_version_major], [0])
-m4_define([windowck_version_minor], [2])
-m4_define([windowck_version_micro], [5])
+m4_define([windowck_version_minor], [3])
+m4_define([windowck_version_micro], [0])
 m4_define([windowck_version_nano],  []) dnl leave this empty to have no nano version
 m4_define([windowck_version_build], [@REVISION@])
 m4_define([windowck_version_tag],   [])