diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 92821c76..b31fed33 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -5,6 +5,30 @@
 
 # Change Log
 
+## v3.0.1 (2025-05-14)
+
+[Full Changelog](https://github.com/ruby-git/ruby-git/compare/v3.0.0..v3.0.1)
+
+Changes since v3.0.0:
+
+* b47eedc Improved error message of rev_parse
+* 9d44146 chore: update the development dependency on the minitar gem
+* f407b92 feat: set the locale to en_US.UTF-8 for git commands
+* b060e47 test: verify that command line envionment variables are set as expected
+* 1a5092a chore: release v3.0.0
+
+## v3.0.0 (2025-02-27)
+
+[Full Changelog](https://github.com/ruby-git/ruby-git/compare/v2.3.3..v3.0.0)
+
+Changes since v2.3.3:
+
+* 534fcf5 chore: use ProcessExecuter.run instead of the implementing it in this gem
+* 629f3b6 feat: update dependenices
+* 501d135 feat: add support for Ruby 3.4 and drop support for Ruby 3.0
+* 38c0eb5 build: update the CI build to use current versions to TruffleRuby and JRuby
+* d3f3a9d chore: add frozen_string_literal: true magic comment
+
 ## v2.3.3 (2024-12-04)
 
 [Full Changelog](https://github.com/ruby-git/ruby-git/compare/v2.3.2..v2.3.3)
diff --git a/git.gemspec b/git.gemspec
index a81ba60b..f8c49bdc 100644
--- a/git.gemspec
+++ b/git.gemspec
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ Gem::Specification.new do |s|
   s.add_runtime_dependency 'rchardet', '~> 1.9'
 
   s.add_development_dependency 'create_github_release', '~> 2.1'
-  s.add_development_dependency 'minitar', '~> 0.12'
+  s.add_development_dependency 'minitar', '~> 1.0'
   s.add_development_dependency 'mocha', '~> 2.7'
   s.add_development_dependency 'rake', '~> 13.2'
   s.add_development_dependency 'test-unit', '~> 3.6'
diff --git a/lib/git/lib.rb b/lib/git/lib.rb
index a2ea79b2..b62d69c1 100644
--- a/lib/git/lib.rb
+++ b/lib/git/lib.rb
@@ -333,7 +333,7 @@ def full_log_commits(opts = {})
     def rev_parse(revision)
       assert_args_are_not_options('rev', revision)
 
-      command('rev-parse', revision)
+      command('rev-parse', '--revs-only', '--end-of-options', revision, '--')
     end
 
     # For backwards compatibility with the old method name
@@ -1547,7 +1547,8 @@ def env_overrides
         'GIT_DIR' => @git_dir,
         'GIT_WORK_TREE' => @git_work_dir,
         'GIT_INDEX_FILE' => @git_index_file,
-        'GIT_SSH' => Git::Base.config.git_ssh
+        'GIT_SSH' => Git::Base.config.git_ssh,
+        'LC_ALL' => 'en_US.UTF-8'
       }
     end
 
diff --git a/lib/git/version.rb b/lib/git/version.rb
index b0ad1154..eb507c85 100644
--- a/lib/git/version.rb
+++ b/lib/git/version.rb
@@ -3,5 +3,5 @@
 module Git
   # The current gem version
   # @return [String] the current gem version.
-  VERSION='2.3.3'
+  VERSION='3.0.1'
 end
diff --git a/tests/test_helper.rb b/tests/test_helper.rb
index c0a95174..067fa633 100644
--- a/tests/test_helper.rb
+++ b/tests/test_helper.rb
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ def append_file(name, contents)
   #
   # @return [void]
   #
-  def assert_command_line_eq(expected_command_line, method: :command, mocked_output: nil)
+  def assert_command_line_eq(expected_command_line, method: :command, mocked_output: nil, include_env: false)
     actual_command_line = nil
 
     command_output = ''
@@ -140,7 +140,11 @@ def assert_command_line_eq(expected_command_line, method: :command, mocked_outpu
       git = Git.init('test_project')
 
       git.lib.define_singleton_method(method) do |*cmd, **opts, &block|
-        actual_command_line = [*cmd, opts]
+        if include_env
+          actual_command_line = [env_overrides, *cmd, opts]
+        else
+          actual_command_line = [*cmd, opts]
+        end
         mocked_output
       end
 
@@ -149,6 +153,8 @@ def assert_command_line_eq(expected_command_line, method: :command, mocked_outpu
       end
     end
 
+    expected_command_line = expected_command_line.call if expected_command_line.is_a?(Proc)
+
     assert_equal(expected_command_line, actual_command_line)
 
     command_output
diff --git a/tests/units/test_command_line_env_overrides.rb b/tests/units/test_command_line_env_overrides.rb
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..a89da4d4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/units/test_command_line_env_overrides.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+
+# frozen_string_literal: true
+
+require 'test_helper'
+
+class TestCommandLineEnvOverrides < Test::Unit::TestCase
+  test 'it should set the expected environment variables' do
+    expected_command_line = nil
+    expected_command_line_proc = ->{ expected_command_line }
+    assert_command_line_eq(expected_command_line_proc, include_env: true) do |git|
+      expected_env = {
+        'GIT_DIR' => git.lib.git_dir,
+        'GIT_INDEX_FILE' => git.lib.git_index_file,
+        'GIT_SSH' => nil,
+        'GIT_WORK_TREE' => git.lib.git_work_dir,
+        'LC_ALL' => 'en_US.UTF-8'
+      }
+      expected_command_line = [expected_env, 'checkout', {}]
+
+      git.checkout
+    end
+  end
+
+  test 'it should set the GIT_SSH environment variable from Git::Base.config.git_ssh' do
+    expected_command_line = nil
+    expected_command_line_proc = ->{ expected_command_line }
+
+    saved_git_ssh = Git::Base.config.git_ssh
+    begin
+      Git::Base.config.git_ssh = 'ssh -i /path/to/key'
+
+      assert_command_line_eq(expected_command_line_proc, include_env: true) do |git|
+        expected_env = {
+          'GIT_DIR' => git.lib.git_dir,
+          'GIT_INDEX_FILE' => git.lib.git_index_file,
+          'GIT_SSH' => 'ssh -i /path/to/key',
+          'GIT_WORK_TREE' => git.lib.git_work_dir,
+          'LC_ALL' => 'en_US.UTF-8'
+        }
+        expected_command_line = [expected_env, 'checkout', {}]
+
+        git.checkout
+      end
+    ensure
+      Git::Base.config.git_ssh = saved_git_ssh
+    end
+  end
+end
diff --git a/tests/units/test_lib.rb b/tests/units/test_lib.rb
index fb319be8..af613d1f 100644
--- a/tests/units/test_lib.rb
+++ b/tests/units/test_lib.rb
@@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ def test_rev_parse_with_bad_revision
   end
 
   def test_rev_parse_with_unknown_revision
-    assert_raise(Git::FailedError) do
+    assert_raise_with_message(Git::FailedError, /exit 128, stderr: "fatal: bad revision 'NOTFOUND'"/) do
       @lib.rev_parse('NOTFOUND')
     end
   end