Cut a WiredTiger 3.0.0 release3.0.0

3 files changed, 31 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index ffcefd5f8c1..7bf3b0e7edb 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,6 +1,35 @@
 Ticket reference tags refer to tickets in the MongoDB JIRA tracking system:
 https://jira.mongodb.org
 
+WiredTiger release 3.0.0, 2018-01-08
+------------------------------------
+
+See the upgrading documentation for details of API and behavior changes.
+
+Significant changes:
+* WT-3039	Change the log file format to record a previous LSN record
+* WT-3181	Add support for application defined transaction IDs via a mechanism called timestamps.
+* WT-3310	Add support to WT_SESSION::alter to change table log setting
+* WT-3389	Restructure page split code to hold a split generation for the entire operation.
+* WT-3406	Fix a bug in reconciliation so that it ignores concurrent updates.
+* WT-3418	Fix a block manager race in tree close/open
+* WT-3435	Improvements to the cache overflow mechanism aka lookaside
+* WT-3437	Improvements to auto tuning of number of eviction workers
+* WT-3440	Add a log record when starting a checkpoint.
+* WT-3461	Avoid hangs when system clocks move backwards by using CLOCK_MONOTONIC for pthread_cond_timedwait if possible.
+* WT-3490	Fix a bug in WT_CURSOR.modify unaligned size_t access.
+* WT-3495	Fix a bug so we don't ftruncate if log cursors are open
+* WT-3497	Improve logging message when hitting the configured session limits
+* WT-3537	Split pages in memory when nothing can be written
+* WT-3556	Remove wtstats support
+* WT-3681	Change recovery so that it doesn't truncate the last log file
+* WT-3683	Allow eviction of clean pages with history when cache is stuck
+* WT-3710	Get a page-level lock to ensure page splits are single threaded
+* WT-3752	Allow trimming of obsolete modify updates.
+
+See JIRA changelog for a full listing:
+https://jira.mongodb.org/projects/WT/versions/18401
+
 WiredTiger release 2.9.3, 2017-06-27
 ------------------------------------
 
diff --git a/README b/README
index 4def09abba6..85a71a510c7 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-WiredTiger 3.0.0: (June 27, 2017)
+WiredTiger 3.0.0: (January  8, 2018)
 
 This is version 3.0.0 of WiredTiger.
 
diff --git a/build_posix/aclocal/version-set.m4 b/build_posix/aclocal/version-set.m4
index 5e54ad1cb69..019fcf184dc 100644
--- a/build_posix/aclocal/version-set.m4
+++ b/build_posix/aclocal/version-set.m4
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ dnl build by dist/s_version
 VERSION_MAJOR=3
 VERSION_MINOR=0
 VERSION_PATCH=0
-VERSION_STRING='"WiredTiger 3.0.0: (June 27, 2017)"'
+VERSION_STRING='"WiredTiger 3.0.0: (January  8, 2018)"'
 
 AC_SUBST(VERSION_MAJOR)
 AC_SUBST(VERSION_MINOR)