diff --git a/python-rt.changes b/python-rt.changes
index ba5d0f7..3b055a2 100644
--- a/python-rt.changes
+++ b/python-rt.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,26 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Sun May 22 10:18:29 UTC 2022 - Sebastian Wagner <sebix+novell.com@sebix.at>
+
+- update to version 3.0.0
+ - The following is a major release of the `rt` library.
+  - There is support for the REST API version 1 as well as version 2.
+  - Please note that this release contains breaking changes and requires adaptations to existing code, even if you are sticking to version 1 of the API.
+  - These changes were necessary in order to properly support both API versions.
+ - Added
+  - RT REST2 support was added and is mostly on par with the REST1 support (differences are a result of the REST2 API implementation differences in RT).
+  - REST2 is a modern API based on JSON exchanges and thus the complex parsing of responses and request construction are no longer needed.
+ - Changes
+  - Existing exception classes were renamed to adhere to the naming convention (https://peps.python.org/pep-0008/#exception-names).
+   - In case you do catch specific `rt` exceptions, a simple search/replace will do, see the changelog page in the documentation for details.
+  - Importing the `rt` class changed in order to better accommodate the new `rest2` implementation.
+   - Where one use to be able to import `rt` using:
+     `from rt import Rt`
+     you now have to use the following syntax:
+     `from rt.rest1 import Rt`
+  - Importing the `rt` module does no longer import all exceptions but only the core `RtError` exception.
+  - If you require other exceptions, please import them from `rt.exceptions`.
+  - Use pytest instead of nose.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Sat Apr  9 07:30:39 UTC 2022 - Sebastian Wagner <sebix+novell.com@sebix.at>
 
diff --git a/python-rt.spec b/python-rt.spec
index 2844155..e769050 100644
--- a/python-rt.spec
+++ b/python-rt.spec
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 # Tests require internet connection
 %{?!python_module:%define python_module() python-%{**} python3-%{**}}
 Name:           python-rt
-Version:        2.2.2
+Version:        3.0.0
 Release:        0
 Summary:        Python interface to Request Tracker API
 License:        GPL-3.0-only
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ Python implementation of Request Tracker (a ticketing system) REST API described
 %python_expand %fdupes %{buildroot}%{$python_sitelib}
 
 %files %{python_files}
-%doc AUTHORS CHANGES README.rst
+%doc AUTHORS CHANGELOG.md README.rst
 %license LICENSE
 %{python_sitelib}/*
 
diff --git a/rt-2.2.2.tar.gz b/rt-2.2.2.tar.gz
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index 5521c54..0000000
--- a/rt-2.2.2.tar.gz
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-oid sha256:79e4f7a101e2ed1bd9dc851aafa3f388cb6abaf861e3c10f96382dbaed54949f
-size 50635
diff --git a/rt-3.0.0.tar.gz b/rt-3.0.0.tar.gz
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4b4e9c5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/rt-3.0.0.tar.gz
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
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+size 65949