diff --git a/AUTHORS.md b/AUTHORS.md
index 3a7ae9c..bc84cdf 100644
--- a/AUTHORS.md
+++ b/AUTHORS.md
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@
     * Vince Lehman         <http://vslehman.com>
     * Muktadir R Chowdhury <mrchwdhr@memphis.edu>
     * Nicholas Gordon      <nmgordon@memphis.edu>
+    * Laqin Fan            <lfan1@memphis.edu>
 
 * University of California, Los Angeles
 
diff --git a/docs/RELEASE-NOTES.rst b/docs/RELEASE-NOTES.rst
index 8f72a08..df3cf99 100644
--- a/docs/RELEASE-NOTES.rst
+++ b/docs/RELEASE-NOTES.rst
@@ -1,6 +1,41 @@
 Release Notes
 =============
 
+NLSR version 0.3.1 (changes since version 0.3.0)
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
+
+Release date: January 22, 2016
+
+**Changes**
+
+- **breaking change** Sync uses /localhop component in prefix to reduce duplicate NACKs (:issue:`3627`)
+
+- **breaking change** LSA uses /localhop component in prefix to reduce duplicate NACKs (:issue:`3899`)
+
+**Code Changes**:
+
+- Fib and FaceMap use std::map instead of std::list (:issue:`2781`)
+
+- NamePrefixTableEntries store RoutingTableEntries using a pointer (:issue:`2863`)
+
+- Namespace closing comments are now consistent with ndn-cxx guidelines (:issue:`3735`)
+
+- Update copyright date across all files (:issue:`3736`, `3909`, `3923`)
+
+- Improve formatting of FaceMap and FaceMapEntry (:issue:`3737`)
+
+- Sort NextHops on NexthopList insertion (:issue:`2721`)
+
+**Bug fixes**:
+
+- HR now recalculates paths after status change of a neighbor (:issue:`3874`)
+
+- NLSR no longer sets strategies multiple times (:issue:`3743`)
+
+- NLSR should enable use of ndn-cxx dispatcher (:issue:`3930`)
+
+- Fix typos in the sample configuration file (:issue:`3113`)
+
 NLSR version 0.3.0 (changes since version 0.2.2)
 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 
diff --git a/wscript b/wscript
index eeb5524..dbdb5a6 100644
--- a/wscript
+++ b/wscript
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
 NLSR, e.g., in COPYING.md file.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 """
 
-VERSION = '0.3.0'
+VERSION = '0.3.1'
 APPNAME = "nlsr"
 BUGREPORT = "http://redmine.named-data.net/projects/nlsr"
 URL = "http://named-data.net/doc/NLSR/"