diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 490a450..0563011 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Changelog
 
-## Next version
+## 1.3.0b1 - December 15, 2023
 
 ### ⚙️ Engineering
 
diff --git a/poetry.lock b/poetry.lock
index 125c9fc..b2cd9be 100644
--- a/poetry.lock
+++ b/poetry.lock
@@ -723,6 +723,7 @@ optional = false
 python-versions = ">=2.7, !=3.0.*, !=3.1.*, !=3.2.*, !=3.3.*, !=3.4.*, !=3.5.*, !=3.6.*"
 files = [
     {file = "jsonpointer-2.4-py2.py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:15d51bba20eea3165644553647711d150376234112651b4f1811022aecad7d7a"},
+    {file = "jsonpointer-2.4.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:585cee82b70211fa9e6043b7bb89db6e1aa49524340dde8ad6b63206ea689d88"},
 ]
 
 [[package]]
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 9053fec..9e7c476 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [tool.poetry]
 name = "sdss-yao"
-version = "1.3.0a0"
+version = "1.3.0b1"
 description = "BOSS spectrograph actor that uses an STA Archon controller"
 authors = ["José Sánchez-Gallego <gallegoj@uw.edu>", "Aidan Gray <aidan.gray@idg.jhu.edu>"]
 license = "BSD-3-Clause"