diff --git a/Changelog.yaml b/Changelog.yaml
index 8f3d48d1c6..9ac2855cdc 100644
--- a/Changelog.yaml
+++ b/Changelog.yaml
@@ -20,6 +20,51 @@
 #   new recipes:
 #     - title: 
 
+- version: 2.39.0
+  date: 2015-09-25
+
+  new features:
+    - title: "Implement tag mapping to automatically filter/transform tags when adding books or downloading metadata"
+      description: "Now you can create simple rules that will filter/transform the tags when adding new books or downloading metadata for books. To setup the rules, go to Preferences->Adding books and Preferences->Downloading metadata"
+      type: major
+
+    - title: "Kobo driver: Support for newly firmware version 3.18"
+      tickets: [1499340] 
+
+    - title: "Edit Book: Add a setting to control icon size for the toolbars (Preferences->Toolbars)"
+
+  bug fixes:
+    - title: "Edit Book: Check Book: Fix automatic correction of missing unique id sometimes not working"
+      tickets: [1498207] 
+
+    - title: "Edit Book: Fix (hopefully) View->Browse images in books sometimes not showing changed images"
+
+    - title: "CBZ metadata: Do not fail to read metadata if the volume is not a valid number."
+      tickets: [1495651]
+
+    - title: "Content server: Fix error in /mobile page if one of the books has metadata with ascii control codes in it."
+      tickets: [1491082]
+
+    - title: "Linux: Workaround for systems with broken xdg-open implementations that do not unquote urls before passing them to applications"
+
+    - title: "Get Books: Update cdp.pl store for website changes"
+
+    - title: "HTMLZ Output: Fix HTML files being created with system encoding instead of UTF-8."
+      tickets: [1499514]
+
+  improved recipes:
+    - TIME Magazine
+    - The Atlantic
+    - Instapaper
+    - Trouw
+
+  new recipes:
+    - title: Various Korean news sources 
+      author: Hoje Lee
+
+    - title: Presseportal DE 
+      author: Volker Heggemann
+
 - version: 2.38.0
   date: 2015-09-11
 
diff --git a/src/calibre/constants.py b/src/calibre/constants.py
index c19480d8a6..3edfd47eb3 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, 38, 0)
+numeric_version = (2, 39, 0)
 __version__   = u'.'.join(map(unicode, numeric_version))
 __author__    = u"Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>"