diff --git a/Doxyfile b/Doxyfile
index 9f1a9eeb3..98462d38c 100644
--- a/Doxyfile
+++ b/Doxyfile
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ PROJECT_NAME           = "websocketpp"
 # if some version control system is used.
 
 
-PROJECT_NUMBER         = "0.3.0-alpha2"
+PROJECT_NUMBER         = "0.3.0-alpha3"
 
 
 # Using the PROJECT_BRIEF tag one can provide an optional one line description
diff --git a/changelog.md b/changelog.md
index 19fe15c06..890b73f0b 100644
--- a/changelog.md
+++ b/changelog.md
@@ -1,15 +1,22 @@
 HEAD
+
+0.3.0-alpha3 - 2013-07-16
 - Minor refactor to bundled sha1 library
 - HTTP header comparisons are now case insensitive. #220, #275
-- Refactors URI to be exception free and not use the regular expressions. This
-  eliminates the dependency on boost or C++11 regex libraries.
-- Updates handling of Server and User-Agent headers
+- Refactors URI to be exception free and not use regular expressions. This
+  eliminates the dependency on boost or C++11 regex libraries allowing native
+  C++11 usage on GCC 4.4 and higher and significantly reduces staticly built
+  binary sizes.
+- Updates handling of Server and User-Agent headers to better handle custom
+  settings and allow suppression of these headers for security purposes.
 - Fix issue where pong timeout handler always fired. Thank you Steven Klassen 
   for reporting this bug.
 - Add ping and pong endpoint wrapper methods
 - Add `get_request()` pass through method to connection to allow calling methods
   specific to the HTTP policy in use.
-- Fix issue compiling with `WEBSOCKETPP_STRICT_MASKING`
+- Fix issue compile error with `WEBSOCKETPP_STRICT_MASKING` enabled and another
+  issue where `WEBSOCKETPP_STRICT_MASKING` was not applied to incoming messages.
+  Thank you Petter Norby for reporting and testing these bugs. #264
 - Add additional macro guards for use with boost_config. Thank you breyed
   for testing and code. #261
 
diff --git a/readme.md b/readme.md
index 96de52816..5db93361b 100644
--- a/readme.md
+++ b/readme.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-WebSocket++ (0.3.0-alpha2)
+WebSocket++ (0.3.0-alpha3)
 ==========================
 
 WebSocket++ is a header only C++ library that implements RFC6455 The WebSocket
diff --git a/websocketpp/version.hpp b/websocketpp/version.hpp
index 73066ab80..dd810b36b 100644
--- a/websocketpp/version.hpp
+++ b/websocketpp/version.hpp
@@ -33,7 +33,6 @@ namespace websocketpp {
 
 /*
  other places where version information is kept
- - echo_client
  - readme.md
  - changelog.md
  - Doxyfile
@@ -51,10 +50,10 @@ static int const patch_version = 0;
  * This is a textual flag indicating the type and number for pre-release 
  * versions (dev, alpha, beta, rc). This will be blank for release versions.
  */
-static char const prerelease_flag[] = "alpha2";
+static char const prerelease_flag[] = "alpha3";
 
 /// Default user agent string
-static char const user_agent[] = "WebSocket++/0.3.0-alpha2";
+static char const user_agent[] = "WebSocket++/0.3.0-alpha3";
 
 } // namespace websocketpp