diff --git a/.ratignore b/.ratignore
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+fixtures
+*.pbxproj
diff --git a/RELEASENOTES.md b/RELEASENOTES.md
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+<!--
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+# Cordova-node-xcode Release Notes
+
+### 1.0.0 (Oct 4, 2017)
+* Bump version to 1.0.0 to represent stability and follow semver more closely
+* Fix null-access errors in `addTo/removeFrom*PbxGroup` methods
+* Fix possible null-access error in `removeFromFrameworksPbxGroup`
+* add check for `isArray` so that strings don't cause an error when calling `.filter`
+* Updated License, Copyright, Contributors and repo url, in prep for contributing this project to Apache Cordova
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
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--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
   "author": "Apache Software Foundation",
   "name": "xcode",
   "description": "parser for xcodeproj/project.pbxproj files",
-  "version": "0.9.3",
+  "version": "1.0.0",
   "main": "index.js",
   "repository": {
     "url": "https://github.com/apache/cordova-node-xcode.git"