diff --git a/.Rbuildignore b/.Rbuildignore
index 698f5e2cc314e9d59694eef5f2c6f7fc309cd23b..d79d3e82545358eb4f0d2d60205fabcd8eb6014a 100644
--- a/.Rbuildignore
+++ b/.Rbuildignore
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 ^inst/doc$
 ^\.gitlab-ci\.yml$
 ## unit tests should be ignored when building the package for CRAN
-#^tests$
+^tests$
 ^inst/PlotProfiling\.R$
 ^.gitlab$
 # Suggested by http://r-pkgs.had.co.nz/package.html
diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 72a814e0064fb165b672af39a3df2084ce0af18a..6c917492a03240ae52e08d7e1f1f5486001091d5 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Package: startR
 Title: Automatically Retrieve Multidimensional Distributed Data Sets
-Version: 2.5.0
+Version: 3.0.0
 Authors@R: c(
     person("Nicolau", "Manubens", , "nicolau.manubens@bsc.es", role = c("aut")),
     person("An-Chi", "Ho", , "an.ho@bsc.es", role = c("aut"), comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-4182-5258")), 
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 674a9365ec00b31c17b02851f7b5835c4cb0aa48..5b7208fe934ea94bf16c437df52cd066ec16fb09 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+# startR v3.0.0 (Release date: 2025-04-23)
+-Compute(): Add 'bscesautosubmit03' and 'bscesautosubmit04' as accepted AS machines
+-Compute(): New parameter `run_dir` to allow Compute() to run on MN5 and CTE-AMD when using Autosubmit
+- Bugfix: Fix Start() check for undefined inner dimensions when there are multiple undefined inner dims
+- Start(): Always define `indices_chunk` when splitting multiselected dimensions
+-Remove PCICt dependency and replace with `ClimProjDiags::as.PCICt()`
+
 # startR v2.5.0 (Release date: 2025-04-23)
 - Compute(): New `special_setup = 'nord4'`; update outdated examples to run on Nord4
 - Compute(): Add support for conda environments