diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
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--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 Package: RMINC
-Version: 1.5.2.3
+Version: 1.5.3.0
 Date: 2017-05-31
 Title: Statistical Tools for Medical Imaging NetCDF (MINC) Files
 Authors@R: c(person("Jason", "Lerch", role = "aut", email = "jason.lerch@sickkids.ca"), 
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
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--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,5 +1,14 @@
 New in Version 1.5.*.*
 =======================
+3.0
+--
+- Disabled buggy matrix mode of anatLm
+- Add explicit configuration file to civet.readCBRAIN
+- Fixed segfault in minc.separation.sizes
+- Add heat smoothing on surface meshes (thanks @DJFernandes)
+- Improved numerical stability in effect size code
+
+
 2.3
 --
 - Fixed mincLmer reinit (formula out of scope bug)
diff --git a/README b/README
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--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -3,7 +3,8 @@ focused on the MINC file format. Supports getting
 and writing volumes, running voxel-wise linear models,
 correlations, correcting for multiple comparisons with False Discovery Rate
 control, and more. With contributions from Jason Lerch,
-Chris Hammill, Jim Nikelski, Matthijs van Eede and Daniel Cassel
+Chris Hammill, Jim Nikelski, Matthijs van Eede, Daniel Cassel,
+Yohan Yee, Gabe Devenyi, and Darren Fernandes.
 
 Installation:
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