diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index de88c7a..31f75ce 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,9 +1,34 @@
 Changelog
 =========
 
+v1.3.0 - 2017-04-
+-------------------
+
+### Features and improvements ###
+
+- Reduced the initialization time for "dub test" by several seconds by avoiding a complex regex - [pull #1078][issue1078]
+- Reduced cubic runtime complexity for collecting string import files to almost linear in the common case - [pull #1079][issue1079]
+- Compiler flag usage warnings are now only emitted for the root package, reducing build output noise - [a75023cd][commita75023cd]
+- Avoid redundant recreation of hard links for build targets (by Danny Milosavljevic aka daym) - [pull #1071][issue1071]
+
+### Bug fixes ###
+
+- Fixed bogus rebuild of packages with no dependencies - [pull #1093][issue1093], [issue #1091][issue1091]
+- Fixed building with vibe-core instead of vibe.d 0.7.x
+- Fixed the VisualD generator to properly handle the "x86_mscoff" pseudoarchitecture
+
+[commita75023cd]: https://github.com/dlang/dub/commit/a75023cd050c055e81190bf7abc5793aba39852f
+[issue1071]: https://github.com/dlang/dub/issues/1071
+[issue1078]: https://github.com/dlang/dub/issues/1078
+[issue1079]: https://github.com/dlang/dub/issues/1079
+[issue1091]: https://github.com/dlang/dub/issues/1091
+[issue1093]: https://github.com/dlang/dub/issues/1093
+
+
 v1.2.2 - 2017-03-09
 -------------------
 
+
 v1.2.1 - 2017-02-12
 -------------------
 
diff --git a/dub.sdl b/dub.sdl
index eb41eaa..3155a00 100644
--- a/dub.sdl
+++ b/dub.sdl
@@ -22,13 +22,13 @@
 }
 
 configuration "library-nonet" {
-	dependency "vibe-d:http" version="~>0.7.30" optional=true
+	dependency "vibe-d:http" version=">=0.7.30 <=0.9.0" optional=true
 	targetType "library"
 	excludedSourceFiles "source/app.d"
 }
 
 configuration "dynamic-library-nonet" {
-	dependency "vibe-d:http" version="~>0.7.30" optional=true
+	dependency "vibe-d:http" version=">=0.7.30 <=0.9.0" optional=true
 	targetType "dynamicLibrary"
 	excludedSourceFiles "source/app.d"
 }
diff --git a/source/dub/packagemanager.d b/source/dub/packagemanager.d
index 00054b9..dd0cf40 100644
--- a/source/dub/packagemanager.d
+++ b/source/dub/packagemanager.d
@@ -69,12 +69,12 @@
 	@property const(Path)[] completeSearchPath()
 	const {
 		auto ret = appender!(Path[])();
-		ret.put(m_searchPath);
+		ret.put(cast(Path[])m_searchPath); // work around Phobos 17251
 		if (!m_disableDefaultSearchPaths) {
-			ret.put(m_repositories[LocalPackageType.user].searchPath);
-			ret.put(m_repositories[LocalPackageType.user].packagePath);
-			ret.put(m_repositories[LocalPackageType.system].searchPath);
-			ret.put(m_repositories[LocalPackageType.system].packagePath);
+			ret.put(cast(Path[])m_repositories[LocalPackageType.user].searchPath);
+			ret.put(cast(Path)m_repositories[LocalPackageType.user].packagePath);
+			ret.put(cast(Path[])m_repositories[LocalPackageType.system].searchPath);
+			ret.put(cast(Path)m_repositories[LocalPackageType.system].packagePath);
 		}
 		return ret.data;
 	}
@@ -247,7 +247,7 @@
 	bool isManagedPath(Path path)
 	const {
 		foreach (rep; m_repositories) {
-			auto rpath = rep.packagePath;
+			Path rpath = rep.packagePath;
 			if (path.startsWith(rpath))
 				return true;
 		}
diff --git a/source/dub/version_.d b/source/dub/version_.d
index a2ee0d2..2cfac3f 100644
--- a/source/dub/version_.d
+++ b/source/dub/version_.d
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 module dub.version_;
-enum dubVersion = "v1.2.2";
+enum dubVersion = "v1.3.0-rc.1";