diff --git a/.release-please-manifest.json b/.release-please-manifest.json
index 2be9c43..0ee8c01 100644
--- a/.release-please-manifest.json
+++ b/.release-please-manifest.json
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 {
-  ".": "0.2.0"
+  ".": "0.3.0"
 }
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index b6e316b..6280582 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -4,6 +4,20 @@ Format is [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.1.0/); versioning i
 [semver](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html). 0.1.0 was written by hand; from the next release on,
 each section is generated from the commits it ships.
 
+## [0.3.0](https://github.com/teerakarna/session-exchange/compare/v0.2.0...v0.3.0) (2026-10-09)
+
+
+### Added
+
+* flag a catch where the file also crashed after its check ([#57](https://github.com/teerakarna/session-exchange/issues/57)) ([#102](https://github.com/teerakarna/session-exchange/issues/102)) ([167126b](https://github.com/teerakarna/session-exchange/commit/167126bd2f4293372a40c95b4916423552f8b6aa))
+
+
+### Fixed
+
+* init's git-root ceiling climbs past a repo nested in another ([#96](https://github.com/teerakarna/session-exchange/issues/96)) ([5d05417](https://github.com/teerakarna/session-exchange/commit/5d05417c1e2f2e0359a93fc17f7df4e57154723c))
+* migrate names a stale moves directory instead of saying run it again ([#94](https://github.com/teerakarna/session-exchange/issues/94)) ([#100](https://github.com/teerakarna/session-exchange/issues/100)) ([dbe45db](https://github.com/teerakarna/session-exchange/commit/dbe45db69c86713259beae74f2ca06e2913302c7))
+* review nits from [#41](https://github.com/teerakarna/session-exchange/issues/41) ([#98](https://github.com/teerakarna/session-exchange/issues/98)) ([22ce6d9](https://github.com/teerakarna/session-exchange/commit/22ce6d95a812e51d57884ae5b96124f25ffcc45d))
+
 ## [0.2.0](https://github.com/teerakarna/session-exchange/compare/v0.1.0...v0.2.0) (2026-10-02)
 
 
diff --git a/plugin/.claude-plugin/plugin.json b/plugin/.claude-plugin/plugin.json
index 327eb14..80a46eb 100644
--- a/plugin/.claude-plugin/plugin.json
+++ b/plugin/.claude-plugin/plugin.json
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
   "name": "session-exchange",
   "displayName": "session-exchange",
   "description": "Presence and handoffs between concurrent Claude Code sessions. Presence is rendered from the native session registry rather than maintained by hand. State lives under an environment root the plugin never names, so the same plugin serves several workspaces without any of them seeing another's.",
-  "version": "0.2.0",
+  "version": "0.3.0",
   "author": {
     "name": "Bertie",
     "url": "https://github.com/teerakarna"