diff --git a/RELEASE_NOTES.md b/RELEASE_NOTES.md
index ac7485c6..a4437f3e 100644
--- a/RELEASE_NOTES.md
+++ b/RELEASE_NOTES.md
@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
 # Release notes
 
+## Changes from 3.0.0 to 3.0.1
+
+XXX version-specific blurb XXX
+
+
 ## Changes from 3.0.0-rc.3 to 3.0.0
 
 * A persistent cache for cpuinfo (stored in `$HOME/.blosc2-cpuinfo.json`) is
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 151be20b..d05d4fc7 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ build-backend = "scikit_build_core.build"
 
 [project]
 name = "blosc2"
-description = "A high-performance compressed ndarray library with a flexible compute engine"
+description = "A fast & compressed ndarray library with a flexible computational engine."
 readme = {file = "README.rst", content-type = "text/x-rst"}
 authors = [{name = "Blosc Development Team", email = "blosc@blosc.org"}]
 maintainers = [{ name = "Blosc Development Team", email = "blosc@blosc.org"}]
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ dependencies = [
     "py-cpuinfo",
     "httpx",
 ]
-version = "3.0.0"
+version = "3.0.1.dev"
 
 
 [project.optional-dependencies]