diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md
index 21d282dd..cdbf5a4d 100644
--- a/CHANGES.md
+++ b/CHANGES.md
@@ -1,12 +1,10 @@
-### v1.2.0 Dev
+### v1.3.0 Beta 0
 
-New Features:
-- Updated UI: New Crawl Configuration UI with URL List and Seeded Crawl Job Types
+Release notes coming soon!
 
-Docs improvements
-
-Docker swarm code removed
+### v1.2.0
 
+See: https://github.com/webrecorder/browsertrix-cloud/releases/tag/v1.2.0 for latest release notes.
 
 ### v1.1.0
 
diff --git a/backend/btrixcloud/version.py b/backend/btrixcloud/version.py
index b7476e5c..11967b79 100644
--- a/backend/btrixcloud/version.py
+++ b/backend/btrixcloud/version.py
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 """ current version """
-__version__ = "1.2.1-beta.0"
+__version__ = "1.3.0-beta.0"
diff --git a/frontend/package.json b/frontend/package.json
index 1e91924f..4d782567 100644
--- a/frontend/package.json
+++ b/frontend/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "browsertrix-frontend",
-  "version": "1.2.1-beta.0",
+  "version": "1.3.0-beta.0",
   "main": "index.ts",
   "license": "AGPL-3.0-or-later",
   "dependencies": {
diff --git a/version.txt b/version.txt
index b3873033..6989533d 100644
--- a/version.txt
+++ b/version.txt
@@ -1 +1 @@
-1.2.1-beta.0
+1.3.0-beta.0