diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
index e69de29bb2d1d6434b8b29ae775ad8c2e48c5391..eb0a3ffaa6ac308633eb55130eb5fd24f6e4530d 100644
--- a/AUTHORS
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Belledonne Communications SARL <contact@belledonne-communications.com>
+
diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am
index 41f42bb06e5c072ac3ec2976498ae20fdf268d43..ce268305188a7eff3a9109f088711a75b9ec2241 100644
--- a/Makefile.am
+++ b/Makefile.am
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS = -I m4
+#ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS = -I m4
 
 SUBDIRS=include src tester
 
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index e69de29bb2d1d6434b8b29ae775ad8c2e48c5391..0df04beec844ab9365e562486610eec3268798f1 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+belle-sip-1.3.0 -- February 20th, 2014 -- initial release of belle-sip
+	* RFC3261 compliant implementation of SIP parser, writer, transactions and dialog layers.
+	* http client api
+	* support of client TLS certificate
+	* fully asynchronous transport layer (UDP, TCP, TLS)
+	* fully asynchronous DNS resolution with SRV
+	* full dual-stack IPv6 support
+	* SIP transaction state machines with lastest corrections (RFC6026)
+	* automatic management of request refreshes with network disconnection resiliency thanks to the "refresher" object
+	* supported platforms: Linux, Mac OSX, windows XP+, iOS, Android, Blackberry 10.
+
diff --git a/README b/README
index 8f9f04f32c3591d6acd4cb6963b379b5860e5dea..e92e889580f86e048fe4dc9f7dda0ab09727fa97 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -1,5 +1,16 @@
-Dependencies:
-*************
+Overview
+********
+
+Belle-sip is a SIP (RFC3261) implementation written in C, with an object oriented API.
+Please check "NEWS" file for an overview of current features.
+Copyright 2012-2014, Belledonne Communications SARL <contact@belledonne-communications.com>, all rights reserved.
+
+Belle-sip is distributed to everyone under the GNU GPLv2 (see COPYING file for details).
+Incorporating belle-sip within a closed source project is not possible under the GPL.
+Commercial licensing can be purchased for that purpose from Belledonne Communications (http://www.belledonne-communications.com).
+
+Dependencies
+************
 
 *libantlr3c-3.2 or 3.4
 *antlr3-3.2 or 3.4
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 5773389d6cd2376c3aaa66573ccb6b93e39181d9..81032f2f806a9e9700b3c680e39dcd8d7e3f015e 100755
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 
 AC_PREREQ([2.63])
 
-AC_INIT([belle-sip],[1.2.4],[jehan.monnier@linphone.org])
+AC_INIT([belle-sip],[1.3.0],[jehan.monnier@linphone.org])
 
 AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([src/belle_sip_utils.c])