diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 8a02ef4..0000000
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,29 +0,0 @@
-## 2.0.1 (2024-07-14)
-
-### Refactor
-
-- fix inspection errors for deprecated calls and concatenation
-
-## 2.0.0 (2024-07-14)
-
-### BREAKING CHANGE
-
-- removed TrackLoader amd LoadableSongs
-
-### Feat
-
-- **Settings**: add helpers to get version number of bot
-
-### Fix
-
-- fix relection package to new path
-- fix wrongly named environment variables
-- bump youtube-source to 1.4.0
-
-### Refactor
-
-- Remove unused command
-- add release to Sentry config
-- remove convoluted TrackLoader and LoadableSongs abstraction
-- **LogHandler**: use the exception itself instead of a string for buildSentryErrorMessage
-- change package path to reflect group id of pom.xml
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index abe1e5e..5fbbc9e 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 
     <groupId>me.bobert</groupId>
     <artifactId>netneutrality</artifactId>
-    <version>2.0.1</version>
+    <version>3.0.0</version>
     <name>netneutrality-discord-bot</name>
     <description>Discord bot</description>
     <packaging>jar</packaging>
diff --git a/src/main/java/me/bobert/netneutrality/NetNeutrality.java b/src/main/java/me/bobert/netneutrality/NetNeutrality.java
index a29b212..980fbdb 100644
--- a/src/main/java/me/bobert/netneutrality/NetNeutrality.java
+++ b/src/main/java/me/bobert/netneutrality/NetNeutrality.java
@@ -29,13 +29,14 @@ import org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.Configurator;
 
 public class NetNeutrality {
     private static final Logger logger = LogManager.getLogger(NetNeutrality.class);
-    public static final String VERSION = Settings.getInstance().getMavenVersion();
+    public static final String VERSION = Settings.getVersion();
     private static NetNeutrality instance;
     private static JDA jda;
 
     public static void main(String[] args) {
-        String env = Settings.getInstance().get("NETNEUTRALITY_BOT_ENV", "dev");
+        System.out.println("Starting NetNeutrality v" + VERSION);
 
+        String env = Settings.getInstance().get("NETNEUTRALITY_BOT_ENV", "dev");
         String sentryDsn = Settings.getInstance().get("NETNEUTRALITY_SENTRY_DSN");
         if (sentryDsn != null) {
             logger.info("Found Sentry DSN in config, setting up the SDK..");
@@ -45,7 +46,7 @@ public class NetNeutrality {
                 options.setEnvironment(env);
                 options.setTracesSampleRate(1.0);
                 options.setDebug(false);
-                options.setRelease(Settings.getVersion());
+                options.setRelease(VERSION);
             });
         }