diff --git a/HISTORY.rst b/HISTORY.rst
index 86595c7fe..786dc6d8b 100644
--- a/HISTORY.rst
+++ b/HISTORY.rst
@@ -7,6 +7,24 @@ History
 
 Datacube-ows version 1.8.x indicates that it is designed work with datacube-core versions 1.8.x.
 
+1.8.30 (2022-10-11)
+-------------------
+
+Minor release, consisting of better Sentry reporting for production deployments, and routine repository
+maintainance.
+
+Full list of changes:
+
+* Update code-of-conduct.md to refer to current ODC Steering Council chair (#862)
+* Fixes to docker-compose files and github workflows (#864, #866, )
+* Simplify and cleanup scripts and config to create database for integration tests (#865, #871)
+* Change interpretation of Sentry environment variables to allow Sentry reporting to any hosted Sentry service (#868, #877)
+* Prevent mysterious Shapely warning message from clogging up Sentry logs (#873)
+* Minor tweaks to aid trouble-shooting and better support local deployments (#878)
+* Updates to HISTORY.rst, README.rst and default version string for release (#879)
+
+Contributions from @pindge and @SpacemanPaul.
+
 1.8.29 (2022-08-30)
 -------------------
 
diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index 6afc6e914..01a1d0005 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -18,7 +18,10 @@ datacube-ows
         :target: https://codecov.io/gh/opendatacube/datacube-ows
 
 Datacube Open Web Services
+--------------------------
 
+Datacube-OWS provides a way to serve data indexed in an Open Data Cube as visualisations, through
+open web services (OGC WMS, WMTS and WCS).
 
 * Free software: Apache Software License 2.0
 * Documentation: https://datacube-ows.readthedocs.io.
diff --git a/datacube_ows/__init__.py b/datacube_ows/__init__.py
index 93173e4c5..0eb43769f 100644
--- a/datacube_ows/__init__.py
+++ b/datacube_ows/__init__.py
@@ -6,4 +6,4 @@
 try:
     from ._version import version as __version__
 except ImportError:
-    __version__ = "1.8.29+?"
+    __version__ = "1.8.30+?"