diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index d5ec2137d..b5ed00cbf 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,3 +1,15 @@
+## 2.3.0 (2022-12-06)
+### Features
+
+- Support python3.11 ([#1023](https://github.com/omry/omegaconf/issues/1023))
+- Support interpolation to keys that contain a non-leading dash character ([#880](https://github.com/omry/omegaconf/issues/880))
+- OmegaConf now inspects the metadata of structured config fields and ignores fields where `metadata["omegaconf_ignore"]` is `True`. ([#984](https://github.com/omry/omegaconf/issues/984))
+
+### Bug Fixes
+
+- Fix an issue where merging of nested structured configs could incorrectly result in an exception ([#1003](https://github.com/omry/omegaconf/issues/1003))
+
+
 ## 2.2.3 (2022-08-18)
 ### Bug Fixes
 
diff --git a/news/1003.bugfix b/news/1003.bugfix
deleted file mode 100644
index 8721fdb8a..000000000
--- a/news/1003.bugfix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Fix an issue where merging of nested structured configs could incorrectly result in an exception
diff --git a/news/880.feature b/news/880.feature
deleted file mode 100644
index 36928d15d..000000000
--- a/news/880.feature
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Support interpolation to keys that contain a non-leading dash character
diff --git a/news/984.feature b/news/984.feature
deleted file mode 100644
index 5e17bac2e..000000000
--- a/news/984.feature
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-OmegaConf now inspects the metadata of structured config fields and ignores fields where `metadata["omegaconf_ignore"]` is `True`.
diff --git a/news/feature.1023 b/news/feature.1023
deleted file mode 100644
index 5039bdd55..000000000
--- a/news/feature.1023
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Support python3.11
diff --git a/omegaconf/version.py b/omegaconf/version.py
index 4208ff706..b4989b2ef 100644
--- a/omegaconf/version.py
+++ b/omegaconf/version.py
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 import sys  # pragma: no cover
 
-__version__ = "2.3.0.dev3"
+__version__ = "2.3.0"
 
 msg = """OmegaConf 2.0 and above is compatible with Python 3.6 and newer.
 You have the following options: