diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 671797c..7b20c5e 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,5 +1,14 @@
 News (mainly features/major bug fixes)
 
+portage-3.0.23
+--------------
+* enable autogroup scheduling with pid-sandbox if possible. This should
+  make the kernel respect niceness better.
+* add support conf-update.d hooks.
+* display all preserved libraries with --verbose.
+* restore QA warnings when EXPORT_FUNCTIONS is called before inherit.
+* catch more setuptools warnings via the respective QA check.
+
 portage-3.0.22
 --------------
 * USE flags are now sorted with respect to numerical segments in emerge
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 37dd1de..054f71b 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -783,7 +783,7 @@
 
 setup(
 	name = 'portage',
-	version = '3.0.22',
+	version = '3.0.23',
 	url = 'https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Portage',
 	project_urls = {
 		'Release Notes': 'https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/portage.git/plain/RELEASE-NOTES',