diff --git a/doc/source/changelog.rst b/doc/source/changelog.rst
index 9f91569..8d2415b 100644
--- a/doc/source/changelog.rst
+++ b/doc/source/changelog.rst
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 ========= ========== ========================================================
 Version   Date       Changes
 ========= ========== ========================================================
-                     * Salt: pillar data from previous pillars are now
+1.3       2014-03-01 * Salt: pillar data from previous pillars are now
                        available to reclass parameter interpolation
                      * yaml_fs: classes may be defined in subdirectories
                        (closes: #12, #19, #20)
diff --git a/reclass/version.py b/reclass/version.py
index 25e07c2..ec805f9 100644
--- a/reclass/version.py
+++ b/reclass/version.py
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 #
 RECLASS_NAME = 'reclass'
 DESCRIPTION = 'merge data by recursive descent down an ancestry hierarchy'
-VERSION = '1.2.2'
+VERSION = '1.3'
 AUTHOR = 'martin f. krafft'
 AUTHOR_EMAIL = 'reclass@pobox.madduck.net'
 COPYRIGHT = 'Copyright © 2007–14 ' + AUTHOR