diff --git a/pysbd/about.py b/pysbd/about.py
index e73ef72..4de8a4f 100644
--- a/pysbd/about.py
+++ b/pysbd/about.py
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # https://python-packaging-user-guide.readthedocs.org/en/latest/single_source_version/
 
 __title__ = "pysbd"
-__version__ = "0.3.0rc"
+__version__ = "0.3.0"
 __summary__ = "pysbd (Python Sentence Boundary Disambiguation) is a rule-based sentence boundary detection that works out-of-the-box across many languages."
 __uri__ = "http://nipunsadvilkar.github.io/"
 __author__ = "Nipun Sadvilkar"
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index 61e9f80..0000000
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-spacy>=2.2.4
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 8095b82..16b192d 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
 
 REQUIRES_PYTHON = ">=3"
 # What packages are required for this module to be executed?
-REQUIRED = ["spacy"]
+REQUIRED = []
 
 with io.open(os.path.join(root, "pysbd", "about.py"), encoding="utf8") as f:
     about = {}