diff --git a/nonblock/__init__.py b/nonblock/__init__.py
index <HASH>..<HASH> 100644
--- a/nonblock/__init__.py
+++ b/nonblock/__init__.py
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 '''
-    Copyright (c) 2015 Timothy Savannah under terms of LGPLv2. You should have received a copy of this LICENSE with this distribution.
+    Copyright (c) 2015-2016 Timothy Savannah under terms of LGPLv2. You should have received a copy of this LICENSE with this distribution.
 
     Contains pure-python functions for non-blocking IO in python
 '''
@@ -12,6 +12,6 @@ from .BackgroundWrite import bgwrite, bgwrite_chunk, BackgroundIOPriority
 
 __all__ = ('nonblock_read', 'bgwrite', 'bgwrite_chunk', 'BackgroundIOPriority')
 
-__version__ = '2.0.0'
-__version_tuple = (2, 0, 0)
+__version__ = '3.0.0'
+__version_tuple = (3, 0, 0)
 
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index <HASH>..<HASH> 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ if __name__ == '__main__':
         long_description = summary
 
     setup(name='python-nonblock',
-            version='2.0.0',
+            version='3.0.0',
             packages=['nonblock'],
             author='Tim Savannah',
             author_email='kata198@gmail.com',
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