diff --git a/Changelog.yaml b/Changelog.yaml
index db25f77a8d..2cbe422226 100644
--- a/Changelog.yaml
+++ b/Changelog.yaml
@@ -20,6 +20,55 @@
 #   new recipes:
 #     - title: 
 
+- version: 0.9.40
+  date: 2013-07-19
+
+  new features:
+    - title: "EPUB Output: Add an option to insert an inline Table of Contents into the main text."
+      tickets: [1201006]
+
+    - title: "Driver for LG Android phone"
+      tickets: [1202013]
+
+    - title: "When matching books in the library against the device manually, pre-fill the search field with the book title"
+      tickets: [1200826]
+ 
+  bug fixes:
+    - title: "PDF Input: Fix a regression that caused some images to be flipped when converting PDF files that use image rotation operators."
+      tickets: [1201083]
+
+    - title: "Fix regression that caused incorrect font size in dropcaps generated by the DOCX input plugin"
+
+    - title: "Get Books: Fix searching for title and author returning some extra matches, if the title starts with an article like the, a or an."
+      tickets: [1200012]
+
+    - title: "PDF Output: Fix extra blank page being inserted at the start of the chapter when converting some epub files from feedbooks"
+
+    - title: "PDF Output: Workaround bug in WebKit's getBoundingClientRect() method that could cause links to occasionally point to incorrect locations."
+      tickets: [1202390]
+
+    - title: "E-book viewer: Fix a bug that could cause the reported position to be incorrect immediately after opening a previously opened book. This also fixes the Back button not working if a link is clicked on the page immediately after opening the book."
+
+    - title: "Fix memory card not being detected for Elonex 621 on Windows"
+
+    - title: "Fix regression in last release that broke auto-conversion of ebooks when sending to device/sending by email."
+      tickets: [1200864]
+
+    - title: "Get Books: Update amazon plugins for website changes"
+
+    - title: "Allow using non-ascii chars in email passwords."
+      tickets: [1202825]
+
+  improved recipes:
+    - Galaxy's Edge
+
+  new recipes:
+    - title: Il Foglio 
+      author: faber1971
+
+    - title: Le Monde Diplomatique and Acrimed
+      author: Gaetan Lehmann
+
 - version: 0.9.39
   date: 2013-07-12
 
diff --git a/src/calibre/constants.py b/src/calibre/constants.py
index 18b4e3d238..1e0b2a1a83 100644
--- a/src/calibre/constants.py
+++ b/src/calibre/constants.py
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ __license__   = 'GPL v3'
 __copyright__ = '2008, Kovid Goyal kovid@kovidgoyal.net'
 __docformat__ = 'restructuredtext en'
 __appname__   = u'calibre'
-numeric_version = (0, 9, 39)
+numeric_version = (0, 9, 40)
 __version__   = u'.'.join(map(unicode, numeric_version))
 __author__    = u"Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>"