diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index bd41c75626..425029d72f 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -15,8 +15,52 @@ Increment the:
 
 ## [Unreleased]
 
+## [1.3.0] 2022-04-11
+
+* [ETW EXPORTER] ETW provider handle cleanup ([#1322](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-cpp/pull/1322))
+* [BUILD] Move public definitions into `opentelemetry_api`. ([#1314](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-cpp/pull/1314))
+* [METRICS] OStream example ([#1312](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-cpp/pull/1312))
+* [BUILD] Rename `http_client_curl` to `opentelemetry_http_client_curl` ([#1301](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-cpp/pull/1301))
+* [METRICS SDK] Add InstrumentationInfo and Resource to the metrics data to be
+  exported.
+  ([#1299](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-cpp/pull/1299))
+* [TESTS] Add building test without RTTI ([#1294](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-cpp/pull/1294))
+* [METRICS SDK] Implement periodic exporting metric reader ([#1286](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-cpp/pull/1286))
 * [SDK] Bugfix: span SetAttribute crash ([#1283](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-cpp/pull/1283))
+* [BUG] Remove implicitly deleted default constructor ([#1267](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-cpp/pull/1267))
+* [METRICS SDK] Synchronous Metric collection (Delta , Cumulative) ([#1265](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-cpp/pull/1265))
+* [METRICS SDK] Metrics exemplar round 1 ([#1264](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-cpp/pull/1264))
+* [EXPORTER] Fix: use CURLOPT_TIMEOUT_MS to config OtlpHttpExporter's timeout
+  instead of CURLOPT_TIMEOUT
+  ([#1261](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-cpp/pull/1261))
 * [EXPORTER] Jaeger Exporter - Populate Span Links ([#1251](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-cpp/pull/1251))
+* [SDK] Reorder the destructor of members in LoggerProvider and TracerProvider ([#1245](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-cpp/pull/1245))
+* [METRICS SDK] Enable metric collection from MetricReader ([#1241](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-cpp/pull/1241))
+* [METRICS SDK] Asynchronous Aggregation storage ([#1232](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-cpp/pull/1232))
+* [METRICS SDK] Synchronous Instruments - Aggregation Storage(s) creation for
+  configured views
+  ([#1219](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-cpp/pull/1219))
+* [BUILD] Added s390x arch into CMake build. ([#1216](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-cpp/pull/1216))
+* [API] Allow extension of the lifetime of ContextStorage. ([#1214](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-cpp/pull/1214))
+* [METRICS SDK] Add Aggregation storage ([#1213](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-cpp/pull/1213))
+* [TESTS] Fix ostream_log_test Mac ([#1208](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-cpp/pull/1208))
+* [BUILD] Update grpc to v1.43.2 to support VS2022/MSVC 19.30 and bazel 5.0 ([#1207](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-cpp/pull/1207))
+* [DOCS] Benchmark documentation ([#1205](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-cpp/pull/1205))
+* [DOCS] Fix errors in SDK documentation ([#1201](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-cpp/pull/1201))
+* [METRICS EXPORTER] Ostream metric exporter ([#1196](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-cpp/pull/1196))
+* [Metrics SDK] Filtering metrics attributes ([#1191](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-cpp/pull/1191))
+* [Metrics SDK] Sync and Async Instruments SDK ([#1184](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-cpp/pull/1184))
+* [Metrics SDK] Add Aggregation as part of metrics SDK. ([#1178](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-cpp/pull/1178))
+* [BUILD] Cmake: thrift requires boost headers, include them as
+  Boost_INCLUDE_DIRS
+  ([#1100](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-cpp/pull/1100))
+
+Notes:
+
+[#1301](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-cpp/pull/1301) added
+`opentelemetry_` as prefix to http_client_curl library for resolving potential
+naming conflict, this could break existing cmake build if http_client_curl is
+listed as explicit dependency in user's cmake file.
 
 ## [1.2.0] 2022-01-31
 
diff --git a/api/include/opentelemetry/version.h b/api/include/opentelemetry/version.h
index 2fe333f3d4..1e01e242ed 100644
--- a/api/include/opentelemetry/version.h
+++ b/api/include/opentelemetry/version.h
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 #include "opentelemetry/detail/preprocessor.h"
 
 #define OPENTELEMETRY_ABI_VERSION_NO 1
-#define OPENTELEMETRY_VERSION "1.2.0"
+#define OPENTELEMETRY_VERSION "1.3.0"
 #define OPENTELEMETRY_ABI_VERSION OPENTELEMETRY_STRINGIFY(OPENTELEMETRY_ABI_VERSION_NO)
 
 // clang-format off
diff --git a/docs/public/conf.py b/docs/public/conf.py
index cd6c7ec6df..910cfc6346 100644
--- a/docs/public/conf.py
+++ b/docs/public/conf.py
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
 author = 'OpenTelemetry authors'
 
 # The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags
-release = '1.2.0'
+release = '1.3.0'
 
 # Run sphinx on subprojects and copy output
 # -----------------------------------------
diff --git a/sdk/include/opentelemetry/sdk/version/version.h b/sdk/include/opentelemetry/sdk/version/version.h
index 3155ea8e0b..155cba3f87 100644
--- a/sdk/include/opentelemetry/sdk/version/version.h
+++ b/sdk/include/opentelemetry/sdk/version/version.h
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 
 #include "opentelemetry/detail/preprocessor.h"
 
-#define OPENTELEMETRY_SDK_VERSION "1.2.0"
+#define OPENTELEMETRY_SDK_VERSION "1.3.0"
 
 #include "opentelemetry/version.h"
 
diff --git a/sdk/src/version/version.cc b/sdk/src/version/version.cc
index 9c4aadf1c9..a153196514 100644
--- a/sdk/src/version/version.cc
+++ b/sdk/src/version/version.cc
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ namespace sdk
 namespace version
 {
 const int MAJOR_VERSION     = 1;
-const int MINOR_VERSION     = 2;
+const int MINOR_VERSION     = 3;
 const int PATCH_VERSION     = 0;
 const char *PRE_RELEASE     = "";
 const char *BUILD_METADATA  = "";