diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index b77c6af..9785018 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ DOWNLOAD
 * `tarball`_
 * GitHub repository_ |travis-status|_ (requires ``autoreconf -i`` after cloning)
 
-.. _`tarball`: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/xylib/xylib-1.1.tar.bz2
+.. _`tarball`: https://github.com/wojdyr/xylib/releases/download/v1.3/xylib-1.3.tar.bz2
 .. _repository: https://github.com/wojdyr/xylib
 .. _travis-status: https://travis-ci.org/wojdyr/xylib/
 .. |travis-status| image:: https://api.travis-ci.org/wojdyr/xylib.png
@@ -137,6 +137,10 @@ CREDITS
 HISTORY
 =======
 
+* 1.3 (2014-01-24)
+
+  - bug fixes only
+
 * 1.2 (2013-08-01)
 
   - added SpecsLab2 xy format (Matthias Richter)
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 3fbb152..46b0758 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # Process this file with `autoreconf -i` to produce a configure script.
-AC_INIT(xylib, 1.2)
+AC_INIT(xylib, 1.3)
 AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR(build-aux)
 AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR(build-aux)
 AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR(xylib/xylib.cpp)
diff --git a/release.sh b/release.sh
index 95d3b02..97cfd4b 100755
--- a/release.sh
+++ b/release.sh
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 
-VERSION=1.2
+VERSION=1.3
 
 if [ $# -eq 0 ]; then
     echo Usage: $0 step
@@ -22,6 +22,8 @@ arg=$1
 # 0. check version numbers and soname
 if [ $arg -eq 0 ]; then
     echo version: $VERSION
+    echo configure.ac:
+    grep AC_INIT configure.ac
     echo in xylib/xylib.h:
     grep 'define XYLIB_VERSION' xylib/xylib.h
     echo in README.rst:
@@ -65,7 +67,7 @@ if [ $arg -eq 3 ]; then
     #make index.html
     rst2html --stylesheet-path=web.css README.rst index.html
     cp index.html README.dev TODO COPYING sample-urls xylib_win-$VERSION/docs
-    echo copy files xylib.dll and xyconv.exe to `pwd`/xylib_win-$VERSION
+    echo copy files xylib-*.dll and xyconv.exe to `pwd`/xylib_win-$VERSION
     echo and do:  zip -r xylib_win-$VERSION.zip xylib_win-$VERSION/
 fi
 
@@ -107,9 +109,9 @@ if [ $arg -eq 9 ]; then
     rm -rf mingw32
     mkdir mingw32
     cd mingw32
-    MDIR=$HOME/local/mingw32msvc
-    ../configure --host=i586-mingw32msvc --enable-static --disable-shared \
-	         CPPFLAGS="-I$HOME/local/src/boost_1_42_0/ -I$MDIR/include/" \
+    MDIR=$HOME/local/mingw32
+    ../configure --host=i686-w64-mingw32 --enable-static --disable-shared \
+	         CPPFLAGS="-I$HOME/local/src/boost_1_50_0/ -I$MDIR/include/" \
 		 CXXFLAGS="-O3" LDFLAGS="-s -L$MDIR/lib" --without-bzlib \
 		 --prefix=$MDIR && \
     make install
diff --git a/xylib/xylib.h b/xylib/xylib.h
index 723316a..451347e 100644
--- a/xylib/xylib.h
+++ b/xylib/xylib.h
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@
  *  XYLIB_VERSION / 100 % 100 is the minor version
  *  XYLIB_VERSION / 10000 is the major version
  */
-#define XYLIB_VERSION 10200 /* 1.2.0 */
+#define XYLIB_VERSION 10300 /* 1.3.0 */
 
 #ifdef __cplusplus