diff --git a/Changelog.yaml b/Changelog.yaml
index 89923a0cab..b05b8e21f1 100644
--- a/Changelog.yaml
+++ b/Changelog.yaml
@@ -20,6 +20,20 @@
 #   new recipes:
 #     - title:
 
+- version: 3.48.0
+  date: 2019-09-13
+
+  new features:
+    - title: "Driver for Kobo Libra H2O"
+
+  bug fixes:
+    - title: "Kobo driver: Fix some annotations getting missed for kepubs"
+
+  improved recipes:
+    - Boston Globe
+    - Scientific American
+
+
 - version: 3.47.1
   date: 2019-08-30
 
diff --git a/src/calibre/constants.py b/src/calibre/constants.py
index 151318965e..5170272acb 100644
--- a/src/calibre/constants.py
+++ b/src/calibre/constants.py
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ from polyglot.builtins import map, unicode_type, environ_item, hasenv, getenv
 import sys, locale, codecs, os, importlib, collections
 
 __appname__   = 'calibre'
-numeric_version = (3, 47, 1)
+numeric_version = (3, 48, 0)
 __version__   = '.'.join(map(unicode_type, numeric_version))
 git_version   = None
 __author__    = "Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>"