diff --git a/Changelog.yaml b/Changelog.yaml
index d0c7bfb64d..6ca8081ec1 100644
--- a/Changelog.yaml
+++ b/Changelog.yaml
@@ -20,6 +20,37 @@
 #   new recipes:
 #     - title: 
 
+- version: 2.76.0
+  date: 2016-12-30
+
+  bug fixes:
+    - title: "E-book viewer: Fix a regression in the previous release that broke the viewer on systems where the temporary directory is a symlink (common on OSX)."
+
+    - title: "EPUB Input: Fix EPUB2 files that specify a cover image via a <meta> tag but not in the <guide> not getting a cover when converted to PDF"
+
+    - title: "PDF Output: Fix conversion failure when input document contains first page with no renderable content."
+      tickets: [1652825]
+
+    - title: "Editor: Fix incorrect handling of some regular expressions in the Search tool."
+      tickets: [1652621]
+
+    - title: "OS X: Fix dynamically generated context menus, such as the sort by menu not working."
+      tickets: [1652694]
+
+    - title: "Fix a crash when running with assertions turned on in Qt."
+      tickets: [1652685]
+
+    - title: "Edit Book: Reports tool: Fix an error when right clicking on items in the Links view."
+      tickets: [1652960]
+
+  improved recipes:
+    - Clarin
+    - La Prensa
+    - Telam
+    - iProfesional
+    - Buenos Aires Economico
+
+
 - version: 2.75.1
   date: 2016-12-23
 
diff --git a/src/calibre/constants.py b/src/calibre/constants.py
index 1dd87a86c7..207f49b717 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 = (2, 75, 1)
+numeric_version = (2, 76, 0)
 __version__   = u'.'.join(map(unicode, numeric_version))
 __author__    = u"Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>"