diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5db13cb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+# Changelog
+
+## [v3.0-rc1](https://github.com/lunarmodules/luasocket/releases/v3.0-rc1) — 2013-06-14
+
+Main changes for LuaSocket 3.0-rc1 are IPv6 support and Lua 5.2 compatibility.
+
+* Added: Compatible with Lua 5.2
+  - Note that unless you define LUA_COMPAT_MODULE, package tables will not be exported as globals!
+* Added: IPv6 support;
+  - Socket.connect and socket.bind support IPv6 addresses;
+  - Getpeername and getsockname support IPv6 addresses, and return the socket family as a third value;
+  - URL module updated to support IPv6 host names;
+  - New socket.tcp6 and socket.udp6 functions;
+  - New socket.dns.getaddrinfo and socket.dns.getnameinfo functions;
+* Added: getoption method;
+* Fixed: url.unescape was returning additional values;
+* Fixed: mime.qp, mime.unqp, mime.b64, and mime.unb64 could mistaking their own stack slots for functions arguments;
+* Fixed: Receiving zero-length datagram is now possible;
+* Improved: Hidden all internal library symbols;
+* Improved: Better error messages;
+* Improved: Better documentation of socket options.
+* Fixed: manual sample of HTTP authentication now uses correct "authorization" header (Alexandre Ittner);
+* Fixed: failure on bind() was destroying the socket (Sam Roberts);
+* Fixed: receive() returns immediatelly if prefix can satisfy bytes requested (M Joonas Pihlaja);
+* Fixed: multicast didn't work on Windows, or anywhere else for that matter (Herbert Leuwer, Adrian Sietsma);
+* Fixed: select() now reports an error when called with more sockets than FD_SETSIZE (Lorenzo Leonini);
+* Fixed: manual links to home.html changed to index.html (Robert Hahn);
+* Fixed: mime.unb64() would return an empty string on results that started with a null character (Robert Raschke);
+* Fixed: HTTP now automatically redirects on 303 and 307 (Jonathan Gray);
+* Fixed: calling sleep() with negative numbers could block forever, wasting CPU. Now it returns immediately (MPB);
+* Improved: FTP commands are now sent in upper case to help buggy servers (Anders Eurenius);
+* Improved: known headers now sent in canonic capitalization to help buggy servers (Joseph Stewart);
+* Improved: Clarified tcp:receive() in the manual (MPB);
+* Improved: Decent makefiles (LHF).
+* Fixed: RFC links in documentation now point to IETF (Cosmin Apreutesei).
diff --git a/NEW b/NEW
deleted file mode 100644
index 0bff64c..0000000
--- a/NEW
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,44 +0,0 @@
-What's New
-
-Main changes for LuaSocket 3.0-rc1 are IPv6 support and Lua 5.2 compatibility. 
-
-    * Added: Compatible with Lua 5.2
-        - Note that unless you define LUA_COMPAT_MODULE, package
-          tables will not be exported as globals! 
-    * Added: IPv6 support;
-        - Socket.connect and socket.bind support IPv6 addresses;
-        - Getpeername and getsockname support IPv6 addresses, and
-          return the socket family as a third value;
-        - URL module updated to support IPv6 host names;
-        - New socket.tcp6 and socket.udp6 functions;
-        - New socket.dns.getaddrinfo and socket.dns.getnameinfo functions; 
-    * Added: getoption method;
-    * Fixed: url.unescape was returning additional values;
-    * Fixed: mime.qp, mime.unqp, mime.b64, and mime.unb64 could
-      mistaking their own stack slots for functions arguments;
-    * Fixed: Receiving zero-length datagram is now possible;
-    * Improved: Hidden all internal library symbols;
-    * Improved: Better error messages;
-    * Improved: Better documentation of socket options. 
-    * Fixed: manual sample of HTTP authentication now uses correct
-      "authorization" header (Alexandre Ittner);
-    * Fixed: failure on bind() was destroying the socket (Sam Roberts); 
-    * Fixed: receive() returns immediatelly if prefix can satisfy
-      bytes requested (M Joonas Pihlaja);
-    * Fixed: multicast didn't work on Windows, or anywhere
-      else for that matter (Herbert Leuwer, Adrian Sietsma);
-    * Fixed: select() now reports an error when called with more
-      sockets than FD_SETSIZE (Lorenzo Leonini);
-    * Fixed: manual links to home.html changed to index.html (Robert Hahn);
-    * Fixed: mime.unb64() would return an empty string on results that started
-      with a null character (Robert Raschke);
-    * Fixed: HTTP now automatically redirects on 303 and 307 (Jonathan Gray);
-    * Fixed: calling sleep() with negative numbers could
-      block forever, wasting CPU. Now it returns immediately (MPB);
-    * Improved: FTP commands are now sent in upper case to
-      help buggy servers (Anders Eurenius);
-    * Improved: known headers now sent in canonic
-      capitalization to help buggy servers (Joseph Stewart);
-    * Improved: Clarified tcp:receive() in the manual (MPB);
-    * Improved: Decent makefiles (LHF).
-    * Fixed: RFC links in documentation now point to IETF (Cosmin Apreutesei).
diff --git a/makefile.dist b/makefile.dist
index 83c303e..34914c3 100644
--- a/makefile.dist
+++ b/makefile.dist
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ DOCS = \
 
 dist:
 	mkdir -p $(DIST)
-	cp -vf NEW $(DIST)
+	cp -vf CHANGELOG.md $(DIST)
 	cp -vf LICENSE $(DIST)
 	cp -vf README $(DIST)
 	cp -vf $(MAKE) $(DIST)