diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 92546488ab822c3d1cf7953e392fd6b14002654b..c87285599d3be788a953c04eab1ef8d5568fa329 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -4,13 +4,13 @@ Title: sybil - Efficient Constrained Based Modelling in R
 Version: 1.2.10
 Date: 2015-03-30
 Authors@R: c(person("Gabriel", "Gelius-Dietrich", role = c("aut", "cre"), email = "geliudie@uni-duesseldorf.de"),
-             person(c("C.", "Jonathan"), "Fritzemeier", role = "ctb"),
+             person(c("C.", "Jonathan"), "Fritzemeier", role = c("ctb", "cre")),
              person("Rajen", "Piernikarczyk", role = "ctb"),
              person(c("Marc", "Andre"), "Daxer", role = "ctb"),
              person("Benjamin", "Braasch", role = "ctb"),
              person("Abdelmoneim", "Desouki", role = "ctb"),
              person(c("Martin", "J."), "Lercher", role = "ctb"))
-Maintainer: Gabriel Gelius-Dietrich <geliudie@uni-duesseldorf.de>
+Maintainer: C. Jonathan Fritzemeier <clausjonathan.fritzemeier@uni-duesseldorf.de>
 Depends: R (>= 2.14.2), Matrix, lattice
 Imports: methods
 Suggests: glpkAPI (>= 1.2.8), cplexAPI (>= 1.2.4), clpAPI (>= 1.2.4),
@@ -51,8 +51,8 @@ Collate: generics.R validmodelorg.R validoptsol.R validreactId.R
         sysBiolAlg_lmomaClass.R sysBiolAlg_momaClass.R
         sysBiolAlg_mtfClass.R sysBiolAlg_roomClass.R sybilLogClass.R
 Packaged: 2014-11-19 20:39:37 UTC; gabriel
-Author: Gabriel Gelius-Dietrich [aut, cre],
-  C. Jonathan Fritzemeier [ctb],
+Author: C. Jonathan Fritzemeier [cre, ctb],
+  Gabriel Gelius-Dietrich [aut],
   Rajen Piernikarczyk [ctb],
   Marc Andre Daxer [ctb],
   Benjamin Braasch [ctb],
diff --git a/inst/NEWS.Rd b/inst/NEWS.Rd
index 83b08200705f322e1ed234092f96e639298e0fda..ba683841f36adfe8099f6417237445fede172ca4 100644
--- a/inst/NEWS.Rd
+++ b/inst/NEWS.Rd
@@ -6,6 +6,11 @@
 
 \newcommand{\CRANpkg}{\href{http://CRAN.R-project.org/package=#1}{\pkg{#1}}}
 
+\section{Changes in version 1.3.0 2015-06-17}{
+    \item changed maintainer
+    \item \code{.parseBoolean} now gives a warning, but handles empty gpr in a intuitive way.
+}
+
 % ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- %
 \section{Changes in version 1.2.10 2015-03-30}{
   \itemize{
@@ -14,7 +19,6 @@
     \item modified \code{multiDel} to not use \code{require}
     \item \code{doubleFluxDel} had a bug if \code{react1} or \code{react2} contained duplicated entries.
     \item documentation of \code{hasEffect} in \code{optsol_genedel} is now clearer.
-    \item \code{.parseBoolean} now gives a warning, but handles empty gpr in a intuitive way.
   }
 }