diff --git a/HISTORY.rst b/HISTORY.rst
index c6c392d..0d36833 100644
--- a/HISTORY.rst
+++ b/HISTORY.rst
@@ -1,10 +1,11 @@
 History
 =======
 
-FUTURE: TBD
------------
+1.3.0: 2024-02-16
+-----------------
 - Drop flag for out of sequence detection
 - Use SPNEGO mechanism by default
+- Fix ``SanitizedResponse.content`` to be ``bytes`` which reflects the base type
 
 1.2.3: 2021-02-08
 -----------------
diff --git a/requests_gssapi/__init__.py b/requests_gssapi/__init__.py
index 65e6d4e..b84bb31 100644
--- a/requests_gssapi/__init__.py
+++ b/requests_gssapi/__init__.py
@@ -22,4 +22,4 @@
 
 __all__ = ('HTTPSPNEGOAuth', 'HTTPKerberosAuth', 'MutualAuthenticationError',
            'SPNEGO', 'REQUIRED', 'OPTIONAL', 'DISABLED')
-__version__ = '1.2.3'
+__version__ = '1.3.0'