diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
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--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Package: RcppThread
 Title: R-Friendly Threading in C++
-Version: 2.2.0.9000
+Version: 2.3.0
 Authors@R: c(
     person("Thomas", "Nagler",, "mail@tnagler.com", role = c("aut", "cre"),
            comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0003-1855-0046"))
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
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--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,4 +1,8 @@
-# RcppThread (development version)
+# RcppThread 2.3.0
+
+* fixed issues with hanging interrupts on Rgui.exe and similar (#82).
+
+* fixed non-virtual destructor warning in ProgressPrinter base class (#80, thanks @SpatLyu).
 
 # RcppThread 2.2.0
 
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ Provides R-friendly threading functionality:
   * thread safe versions of [Rcpp's](https://www.rcpp.org/)
     `checkUserInterrupt()`, `Rcout`, and `Rcerr`,
   * an interruptible thread class that otherwise behaves like 
-   [`std::thread`](https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/thread/thread),
+   [`std::thread`](https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/thread/thread.html),
   * classes for the [thread pool
     pattern](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thread_pool) and parallel for loops
     for easy and flexible parallelism,
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ Provides R-friendly threading functionality:
 
 The library is header-only, platform-independent, and only 
 requires a 
-[C++11-compatible compiler](https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/compiler_support#cpp11).
+[C++11-compatible compiler](https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/compiler_support.html#cpp11).
 
 ## Functionality
 
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