diff --git a/cactus/announcements/3.0.ann b/cactus/announcements/3.0.ann
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..bcc35bad
--- /dev/null
+++ b/cactus/announcements/3.0.ann
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+The Maven team is pleased to announce the Cactus plugin 3.0 release!
+
+http://maven.apache.org/reference/plugins/cactus
+
+The Maven Cactus plugin is a plugin for Cactus
+(http://jakarta.apache.org/cactus) that allows to automatically start 
+containers, run Cactus tests and stop the containers.
+
+User-visible changes in this version:
+
+o New goal cactus:match added that allows you to run just matching testcases.
+  Pass the testcase in using -Dtestmatch=MyTestCase.  This brings to parity the
+  cactus plugin with the test plugin for running types of tests.
+o New goal cactus:single added that allows you to run just a single testcase.
+  Pass the testcase in using -Dtestcase=my.single.TestCase.
+o Add xml declaration to generated report. Fixed for character encoding.
+o Ability to optionally specify for Tomcat 4x and 5x a directory to which 
+  the container will be installed for the tests.        
+o Add all user jars that have been marked to be included in the cactus
+  test (with the <cactus.bundle>true</cactus.bundle> property
+  in dependencies). For example, DBUnit would be a jar you would 
+  include in a Cactus test but not in a runtime war.
+o Updated to Cactus/Ant of 19th of June 2003 which fixes a bug
+  preventing JBoss to start correctly on unix machines (caused by
+  an invalid URL file format on unix. Thanks to Chris Lenz for
+  fixing it.
+o The cactus:compile goal now correctly copy the non java files to the target 
+  class directory.
+o Major change: updated to use the Cactus/Ant integration built after 
+  23rd of May 2003 (it is completely different from the Cactus/Ant
+  integration used in version 2.0.
+
+Note that this plugin has been tested with Maven beta 10. Using it with
+another version of Maven is at your own risks! :-)
+
+You can download the Cactus Maven plugin here:
+http://www.ibiblio.org/maven/maven/jars/maven-cactus-plugin-3.0.jar
+
+Have fun!
+-Vincent
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diff --git a/cactus/project.xml b/cactus/project.xml
index 7b16d1a1..60be628a 100644
--- a/cactus/project.xml
+++ b/cactus/project.xml
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
   <pomVersion>3</pomVersion>
   <id>maven-cactus-plugin</id>
   <name>Maven Cactus Plug-in</name>
-  <currentVersion>3.0-SNAPSHOT</currentVersion>
+  <currentVersion>3.0</currentVersion>
   <description>Plugin for Cactus (http://jakarta.apache.org/cactus) that allows to automatically start containers, run Cactus tests and stop the containers.</description>
   <shortDescription>Cactus plugin</shortDescription>
   <url>http://maven.apache.org/reference/plugins/cactus/</url>
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
     <version>
       <id>3.0</id>
       <name>3.0</name>
-      <tag>HEAD</tag>
+      <tag>MAVEN_CACTUS_3_0</tag>
     </version>
   </versions>
   <developers>
diff --git a/cactus/xdocs/changes.xml b/cactus/xdocs/changes.xml
index 5728e8cb..bb06ace7 100644
--- a/cactus/xdocs/changes.xml
+++ b/cactus/xdocs/changes.xml
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 
   <body>
 
-    <release version="3.0" date="in CVS">  
+    <release version="3.0" date="2003-08-05">  
       <action dev="dion" type="update">
         Upgrade to commons-logging 1.0.3
       </action>
diff --git a/cactus/xdocs/index.xml b/cactus/xdocs/index.xml
index 0d37d1ac..cd90f9d6 100644
--- a/cactus/xdocs/index.xml
+++ b/cactus/xdocs/index.xml
@@ -24,6 +24,13 @@
           <th>Date</th>
           <th>Description</th>
         </tr>
+        <tr>
+          <td>05 Aug 2003</td>
+          <td>
+            Release of version 3.0. Read the
+            <a href="http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/maven/src/plugins-build/cactus/announcements/3.0.ann?rev=1.1&amp;content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup">announcement</a>.
+          </td>
+        </tr>
         <tr>
           <td>08 Apr 2003</td>
           <td>
diff --git a/cactus/xdocs/navigation.xml b/cactus/xdocs/navigation.xml
index 049f9cd3..3f4bf703 100644
--- a/cactus/xdocs/navigation.xml
+++ b/cactus/xdocs/navigation.xml
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
       <item name="Properties" href="/properties.html"/>
     </menu>
     <menu name="Downloads">
+      <item name="Cactus Plugin 3.0" href="http://www.ibiblio.org/maven/maven/jars/maven-cactus-plugin-3.0.jar"/>
       <item name="Cactus Plugin 2.0" href="http://www.ibiblio.org/maven/maven/jars/maven-cactus-plugin-2.0.jar"/>
       <item name="Cactus Plugin 1.2" href="http://www.ibiblio.org/maven/maven/jars/maven-cactus-plugin-1.2.jar"/>
       <item name="Cactus Plugin 1.1" href="http://www.ibiblio.org/maven/maven/jars/maven-cactus-plugin-1.1.jar"/>