diff --git a/cornac/__init__.py b/cornac/__init__.py
index cb507bda..c2c83a5a 100644
--- a/cornac/__init__.py
+++ b/cornac/__init__.py
@@ -23,4 +23,4 @@
 # Also importable from root
 from .experiment import Experiment
 
-__version__ = "2.6.0"
+__version__ = "3.0.0"
diff --git a/docs/source/conf.py b/docs/source/conf.py
index 42a4c821..b88a7c74 100644
--- a/docs/source/conf.py
+++ b/docs/source/conf.py
@@ -31,9 +31,9 @@
 author = "Preferred.AI"
 
 # The short X.Y version
-version = "2.6"
+version = "3.0"
 # The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags
-release = "2.6.0"
+release = "3.0.0"
 
 
 # -- General configuration ---------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 46eef68c..aa7a87fc 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
 
 [project]
 name = "cornac"
-version = "2.6.0"
+version = "3.0.0"
 description = "A Comparative Framework for Multimodal Recommender Systems"
 readme = "README.md"
 dependencies = [