diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index ef3c29b..5f3fac0 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,6 +1,12 @@
 Ruby MQTT NEWS
 ==============
 
+Ruby MQTT Version 0.3.1 (2014-10-10)
+------------------------------------
+
+* Added ```last_ping_response``` to attribute to ```MQTT::Client```
+
+
 Ruby MQTT Version 0.3.0 (2014-08-26)
 ------------------------------------
 
diff --git a/lib/mqtt/version.rb b/lib/mqtt/version.rb
index ad15875..a8d56a6 100644
--- a/lib/mqtt/version.rb
+++ b/lib/mqtt/version.rb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 module MQTT
   # The version number of the MQTT gem
-  VERSION = "0.3.0"
+  VERSION = "0.3.1"
 end