diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 7636ba7d..4e199ee1 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Type: Package
 Package: nlmixr2est
 Title: Nonlinear Mixed Effects Models in Population PK/PD, Estimation
     Routines
-Version: 3.0.0.9000
+Version: 3.0.1
 Authors@R: c(
     person("Matthew", "Fidler", , "matthew.fidler@gmail.com", role = c("aut", "cre"),
            comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0001-8538-6691")),
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 4f612d4d..128f223e 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,7 +1,9 @@
-# nlmixr2est (development version)
+# nlmixr2est 3.0.1
 
-- Now when optimizing only a single parameter with `focei`-family, will
-  change to use stats::optimize for the outer problem (#481)
+## New features
+
+- Now when optimizing only a single parameter with `focei`-family,
+  will change to use `stats::optimize()` for the outer problem (#481)
 
 - When estimating with all fixed population parameters, do a posthoc
   estimation.
@@ -10,7 +12,8 @@
   `nlmixr2global`, which fixes some edge case bugs where the nlmixr2
   environment was not reset properly.
 
-## New features
+- Treated edge case where all initial parameters are zero and change
+  scaling from scaled to unscaled (#486)
 
 - Added `mu`4 referencing that will change string expressions to
   `rxode2` numeric values.  This allows derived strings to also be