diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md
index fdab5fd..8534db0 100644
--- a/CHANGES.md
+++ b/CHANGES.md
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
 
 ## [Unreleased]
 
+## [3.0.0a2] - 2024-06-18
+
 - Update stac-fastapi libraries to `~=3.0.0a3`
 - make sure the application can work without any extension
 
@@ -316,7 +318,8 @@ As a part of this release, this repository was extracted from the main
 
 - First PyPi release!
 
-[Unreleased]: <https://github.com/stac-utils/stac-fastapi-pgstac/compare/3.0.0a1..main>
+[Unreleased]: <https://github.com/stac-utils/stac-fastapi-pgstac/compare/3.0.0a2..main>
+[3.0.0a2]: <https://github.com/stac-utils/stac-fastapi-pgstac/compare/3.0.0a1..3.0.0a2>
 [3.0.0a1]: <https://github.com/stac-utils/stac-fastapi-pgstac/compare/3.0.0a0..3.0.0a1>
 [3.0.0a0]: <https://github.com/stac-utils/stac-fastapi-pgstac/compare/2.5.0..3.0.0a0>
 [2.5.0]: <https://github.com/stac-utils/stac-fastapi-pgstac/compare/2.4.11..2.5.0>
diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index a6f4248..3a5b5bc 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-3.0.0a1
+3.0.0a2
diff --git a/stac_fastapi/pgstac/version.py b/stac_fastapi/pgstac/version.py
index ee78e93..09df47a 100644
--- a/stac_fastapi/pgstac/version.py
+++ b/stac_fastapi/pgstac/version.py
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 """library version."""
 
-__version__ = "3.0.0a1"
+__version__ = "3.0.0a2"