diff --git a/docs/release-notes.rst b/docs/release-notes.rst
index bc4f1705..cddac374 100644
--- a/docs/release-notes.rst
+++ b/docs/release-notes.rst
@@ -7,6 +7,12 @@
 Release Notes
 =============
 
+Toyplot 1.0.3 - October 12th, 2022
+----------------------------------
+
+* Use matrix multiplication to transform text - thanks to @eaton-lab!
+* Some experiments with computational-graph based layout.
+
 Toyplot 1.0.2 - August 24th, 2022
 ---------------------------------
 
diff --git a/toyplot/__init__.py b/toyplot/__init__.py
index 83e812ec..6e11e13a 100644
--- a/toyplot/__init__.py
+++ b/toyplot/__init__.py
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 
 from toyplot.canvas import Canvas
 
-__version__ = "1.0.3-dev"
+__version__ = "1.0.3"
 
 log = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 log.setLevel(logging.WARNING)