diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 60cd410f5..44f30e7e5 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ This way, you can start where you left off. If you remove the container, you nee
 Download the latest WebGoat release from [https://github.com/WebGoat/WebGoat/releases](https://github.com/WebGoat/WebGoat/releases)
 
 ```shell
-java -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -Dwebgoat.port=8080 -Dwebwolf.port=9090 -jar webgoat-8.2.3.jar
+java -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -Dwebgoat.port=8080 -Dwebwolf.port=9090 -jar webgoat-2023.0.jar
 ```
 
 Click the link in the log to start WebGoat.
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ For instance running as a jar on a Linux/macOS it will look like this:
 ```Shell
 export EXCLUDE_CATEGORIES="CLIENT_SIDE,GENERAL,CHALLENGE"
 export EXCLUDE_LESSONS="SqlInjectionAdvanced,SqlInjectionMitigations"
-java -jar target/webgoat-8.2.3-SNAPSHOT.jar
+java -jar target/webgoat-2023.0-SNAPSHOT.jar
 ```
 
 Or in a docker run it would (once this version is pushed into docker hub) look like this:
diff --git a/RELEASE_NOTES.md b/RELEASE_NOTES.md
index 0e217e36e..b0da20ea7 100644
--- a/RELEASE_NOTES.md
+++ b/RELEASE_NOTES.md
@@ -1,10 +1,15 @@
 # WebGoat release notes
 
-## Unreleased
+## Version 2023.0
+
+With great pleasure, we present you with a new release of WebGoat **2023.0**. Finally, it has been a while. This year starts with a new release of WebGoat. This year we will undoubtedly release more often. From this release on, we began to use a new versioning scheme (https://calver.org/#scheme).
+
+A big thanks to René Zubcevic and Àngel Ollé Blázquez for keeping the project alive this last year, and hopefully, we can make
+many more releases this year.
 
 ### New functionality
 
-- New year's resolution: major refactoring of WebGoat to simplify the setup and improve building times.
+- New year's resolution(2022): major refactoring of WebGoat to simplify the setup and improve building times.
 - Move away from multi-project setup:
   * This has a huge performance benefit when building the application. Build time locally is now `Total time:  42.469 s` (depends on your local machine of course)
   * No longer add Maven dependencies in several places
@@ -22,14 +27,27 @@
 - Updated introduction lesson to WebWolf.
 - Added language switch for support for multiple languages.
 - Removed logic to start WebGoat on a random port when port `8080` is taken. We would loop until we found a free port. We simplified this to just start on the specified port.
+- Add Google formatter for all our code, a PR now checks whether the code adheres to the standard.
+- Renaming of all packages and folders.
 - [#1039 New OWASP Top 10](https://github.com/WebGoat/WebGoat/issues/1093)
+- [#1065 New lesson about logging](https://github.com/WebGoat/WebGoat/issues/1065)
+
+### Bug fixes
+
+
 - [#1193 Vulnerable component lesson - java.desktop does not "opens java.beans" to unnamed module](https://github.com/WebGoat/WebGoat/issues/1193)
 - [#1176 Minor: XXE lesson 12 patch not reset by 'lesson reset' while it IS reset by leaving/returning to lesson](https://github.com/WebGoat/WebGoat/issues/1176)
 - [#1134 "Exploiting XStream" assignment does not work](https://github.com/WebGoat/WebGoat/issues/1134)
 - [#1130 Typo: Using Indrect References](https://github.com/WebGoat/WebGoat/issues/1130)
 - [#1101 SQL lesson not correct](https://github.com/WebGoat/WebGoat/issues/1101)
 - [#1079 startup.sh issues of WebWolf - cannot connect to the WebGoat DB](https://github.com/WebGoat/WebGoat/issues/1079)
-- [#1065 New lesson about logging](https://github.com/WebGoat/WebGoat/issues/1065)
+- [#1379 Move XXE to A05:2021-_Security_ Misconfiguration](https://github.com/WebGoat/WebGoat/issues/1379)
+- [#1298 SocketUtils is deprecated and will be removed in Spring Security 6](https://github.com/WebGoat/WebGoat/issues/1298)
+- [#1248 Rewrite the WebWolf Introduction Lesson with the new changes](https://github.com/WebGoat/WebGoat/issues/1248)
+- [#1200 Type cast error in sample code at JWT token section](https://github.com/WebGoat/WebGoat/issues/1200)
+- [#1173 --server.port=9000 is not respected on Windows (both cmd as Powershell)](https://github.com/WebGoat/WebGoat/issues/1173)
+- [#1103 (A1) path traversel lesson 7 seems broken](https://github.com/WebGoat/WebGoat/issues/1103)
+- [#986 - User registration not persistant](https://github.com/WebGoat/WebGoat/issues/986)
 
 ## Version 8.2.2
 
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 21dcfc4c7..4e2ab4ccd 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
   </parent>
   <groupId>org.owasp.webgoat</groupId>
   <artifactId>webgoat</artifactId>
-  <version>8.2.3-SNAPSHOT</version>
+  <version>2023.0</version>
   <packaging>jar</packaging>
 
   <name>WebGoat</name>