diff --git a/CHANGELOG.rst b/CHANGELOG.rst
index 20d389e5b9a270a624b121aafef9ff197937ec9b..541f5b4af46dc14f3ba7023647f91d00730836cc 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.rst
+++ b/CHANGELOG.rst
@@ -1,6 +1,10 @@
 Changelog
 =========
 
+0.3.0 (2016-12-13)
+------------------
+* Updates for Kinetic release.
+
 0.2.1 (2015-02-25)
 ------------------
 * minor bugfixes and improvements.
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ed8245b701ee1197c0deabd46429060ef74a6cae
--- /dev/null
+++ b/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+See [rosjava_core](https://github.com/rosjava/rosjava_core) readme.
diff --git a/build.gradle b/build.gradle
index 21a47a8ffcb8b8be99ccbafd7b1e9bee66e56da4..7aef4699e5261bf92c9e66381cf2d222703af678 100644
--- a/build.gradle
+++ b/build.gradle
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ apply from: project.file('gradle.gradle')
 
 allprojects {
   group="org.ros.rosjava_bootstrap"
-  version = "0.2.1"
+  version = "0.3.0"
 }
 
 subprojects {
diff --git a/experiments/ros-java.gradle b/experiments/ros-java.gradle
index 330dc30df8d2cb7406d301a82c5b141c3cec74d4..e67d090c3c325f29151e13741f1e86a7616dfe39 100644
--- a/experiments/ros-java.gradle
+++ b/experiments/ros-java.gradle
@@ -30,12 +30,12 @@
  * 
  * Generally:
  * 
- *   apply from: "https://github.com/rosjava/rosjava_bootstrap/raw/indigo/ros-java.gradle"
+ *   apply from: "https://github.com/rosjava/rosjava_bootstrap/raw/kinetic/ros-java.gradle"
  * 
  * In the root build.gradle file of a multiproject build:
  * 
  * subprojects {
- *   apply from: "https://github.com/rosjava/rosjava_bootstrap/raw/indigo/ros-java.gradle"
+ *   apply from: "https://github.com/rosjava/rosjava_bootstrap/raw/kinetic/ros-java.gradle"
  *   ...
  * }
  */
diff --git a/package.xml b/package.xml
index db848eed44dfb57d9dc5b33576431330392697c7..7adf995920020422b51ac5e2af658352713a860c 100644
--- a/package.xml
+++ b/package.xml
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 <?xml version="1.0"?>
 <package>
   <name>rosjava_bootstrap</name>
-  <version>0.2.1</version>
+  <version>0.3.0</version>
   <description>
     Bootstrap utilities for rosjava builds.
   </description>