diff --git a/CHANGELOG.rst b/CHANGELOG.rst
index e6e79d7e..f23c3031 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.rst
+++ b/CHANGELOG.rst
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 Changelog
 ---------
 
-*unreleased*
-~~~~~~~~~~~~
+21.3 - 2021-11-17
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
 * Add a ``pp3-none-any`` tag (:issue:`311`)
 * Replace the blank pyparsing 3 exclusion with a 3.0.5 exclusion (:issue:`481`, :issue:`486`)
diff --git a/packaging/__about__.py b/packaging/__about__.py
index c5e047f9..3551bc2d 100644
--- a/packaging/__about__.py
+++ b/packaging/__about__.py
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 __summary__ = "Core utilities for Python packages"
 __uri__ = "https://github.com/pypa/packaging"
 
-__version__ = "21.3.dev0"
+__version__ = "21.3"
 
 __author__ = "Donald Stufft and individual contributors"
 __email__ = "donald@stufft.io"