diff --git a/mesonbuild/coredata.py b/mesonbuild/coredata.py
index b4d3158e4ddc..ff5e7956a8a5 100644
--- a/mesonbuild/coredata.py
+++ b/mesonbuild/coredata.py
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@
 #
 # Pip requires that RCs are named like this: '0.1.0.rc1'
 # But the corresponding Git tag needs to be '0.1.0rc1'
-version = '1.3.0.rc3'
+version = '1.3.0'
 
 # The next stable version when we are in dev. This is used to allow projects to
 # require meson version >=1.2.0 when using 1.1.99. FeatureNew won't warn when