diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index b02d8a554b395fb81d9967500b47a775d73a8e61..3ab44845bf3f93f712d2a5e7668723487b8afb40 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 Package: sybilSBML
 Type: Package
 Title: SBML Integration in Package 'Sybil'
-Version: 3.0.2
-Date: 2017-10-24
+Version: 3.0.3
+Date: 2018-01-02
 Authors@R: c(person(c("C.", "Jonathan"), "Fritzemeier", role = c("cre", "ctb"), email = "clausjonathan.fritzemeier@uni-duesseldorf.de"),
 			 person("Gabriel", "Gelius-Dietrich", role = c("aut", "ctb")),
              person("Deya", "Alzoubi", role = "ctb"),
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ License: GPL-3 | file LICENSE
 LazyLoad: yes
 Collate: generics.R sbmlPtrClass.R sbmlErrorClass.R sybilSBML.R
         uglyHack.R readSBMLmod.R zzz.R
-Packaged: 2017-10-24 07:11:55 UTC; jonathan
+Packaged: 2018-01-02 07:11:55 UTC; jonathan
 Author: C. Jonathan Fritzemeier [cre, ctb],
   Gabriel Gelius-Dietrich [aut, ctb],
   Deya Alzoubi [ctb],
diff --git a/inst/NEWS.Rd b/inst/NEWS.Rd
index e90f8c537de81f3bf32503dbcb22bb8a3d190366..4aa76fe8beae83a3263bba824ee19a0d37177f96 100644
--- a/inst/NEWS.Rd
+++ b/inst/NEWS.Rd
@@ -6,6 +6,14 @@
 
 \newcommand{\CRANpkg}{\href{https://cran.r-project.org/package=#1}{\pkg{#1}}}
 % ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- %
+\section{Changes in version 3.0.3 2018-01-02}{
+  \itemize{
+    \item Added support for the groups plugin of SBML. Now the \code{subSys} 
+    (sub system) is read and written from/to the groups plugin. This is necessary 
+    for some newer models.
+  }
+}
+% ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- %
 \section{Changes in version 3.0.2 2017-10-24}{
   \itemize{
     \item Removed bug when trying to write models with NA in, e.g. \code{met_attr}.