diff --git a/Changelog.yaml b/Changelog.yaml
index a096dd7971..818524272d 100644
--- a/Changelog.yaml
+++ b/Changelog.yaml
@@ -19,6 +19,73 @@
 #   new recipes:
 #     - title: 
 
+- version: 0.8.38
+  date: 2012-02-03
+
+  new features:
+    - title: "Implement the ability to automatically add books to calibre from a specified folder."
+      type: major
+      description: "calibre can now watch a folder on your computer and instantly add any files you put there to the calibre library as new books. You can tell calibre which folder to watch via Preferences->Adding Books->Automatic Adding."
+      tickets: [920249] 
+
+    - title: "Conversion: When automatically inserting page breaks, do not put a page break before a <h1> or <h2> tag if it is immediately preceded by another <h1> or <h2> tag."
+
+    - title: "Driver for EZReader T730 and Pint-of-View PlayTab Pro"
+      tickets: [923283, 922969]
+ 
+  bug fixes:
+    - title: "Fix device entry not visible in menubar even when it has been added via Preferences->Toolbars."
+      tickets: [923175]
+
+    - title: "Fix metadata plugboards not applied when auto sending news by email"
+
+    - title: "Fix regression in 0.8.34 that broke recipes that used skip_ad_pages() but not get_browser(). "
+      tickets: [923724] 
+
+    - title: "Restore device support on FreeBSD, by using HAL"
+      tickets: [924503]
+
+    - title: "Get books: Show no more than 10 results from the Gandalf store"
+
+    - title: "Content server: Fix metadata not being updated when sending for some MOBI files."
+      tickets: [923130]
+
+    - title: "Heuristic processing: Fix the italicize common patterns algorithm breaking on some HTML markup."
+      tickets: [922317]
+
+    - title: "When trying to find an ebook inside a zip file, do not fail if the zip file itself contains other zip files."
+      tickets: [925670]
+
+    - title: "EPUB Input: Handle EPUBs with duplicate entries in the manifest."
+      tickets: [925831]
+
+    - title: "MOBI Input: Handle files that have extra </html> tags sprinkled through out their markup."
+      tickets: [925833]
+
+  improved recipes:
+    - Metro Nieuws NL
+    - FHM UK
+
+  new recipes:
+    - title: Strange Horizons 
+      author: Jim DeVona
+
+    - title: Telegraph India and Live Mint 
+      author: Krittika Goyal
+
+    - title: High Country News 
+      author: Armin Geller
+
+    - title: Countryfile
+      author: Dave Asbury
+
+    - title: Liberation (subscription version) 
+      author: Remi Vanicat
+
+    - title: Various Italian news sources 
+      author: faber1971
+
+
 - version: 0.8.37
   date: 2012-01-27
 
diff --git a/src/calibre/constants.py b/src/calibre/constants.py
index 6b6670130e..5269ea52ba 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, 8, 37)
+numeric_version = (0, 8, 38)
 __version__   = u'.'.join(map(unicode, numeric_version))
 __author__    = u"Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>"