diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 2eaf67cbae7..5981ce910a4 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -6,6 +6,10 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 
 ## [Unreleased]
 
+## [1.3.0] - 2020-08-21
+### Added
+- **Utilities**: Add new `parameters` utility to retrieve a single or multiple parameters from SSM Parameter Store, Secrets Manager, DynamoDB, or your very own
+
 ## [1.2.0] - 2020-08-20
 ### Added
 - **Tracer**: capture_method decorator now supports generator functions (including context managers)
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 8d2a08f0e7a..75c74fb9bed 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [tool.poetry]
 name = "aws_lambda_powertools"
-version = "1.2.0"
+version = "1.3.0"
 description = "Python utilities for AWS Lambda functions including but not limited to tracing, logging and custom metric"
 authors = ["Amazon Web Services"]
 classifiers=[