diff --git a/docs/about/release-notes.md b/docs/about/release-notes.md
index 999ce45e7a..d9c58e5f11 100644
--- a/docs/about/release-notes.md
+++ b/docs/about/release-notes.md
@@ -21,6 +21,11 @@ The current and past members of the MkDocs team.
 * [@d0ugal](https://github.com/d0ugal/)
 * [@waylan](https://github.com/waylan/)
 
+## Version 1.0.3 (2018-08-29)
+
+* Bugfix: Warn on relative paths in navigation (#1604).
+* Bugfix: Handle empty `theme_config.yml` files correctly (#1602).
+
 ## Version 1.0.2 (2018-08-22)
 
 * Bugfix: Provide absolute `base_url` to error templates (#1598).
diff --git a/mkdocs/__init__.py b/mkdocs/__init__.py
index 8cbf17a83f..dc31540e57 100644
--- a/mkdocs/__init__.py
+++ b/mkdocs/__init__.py
@@ -4,4 +4,4 @@
 from __future__ import unicode_literals
 
 # For acceptable version formats, see https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0440/
-__version__ = '1.0.2'
+__version__ = '1.0.3'