diff --git a/Changelog.yaml b/Changelog.yaml
index 85486f73d8..df7c280968 100644
--- a/Changelog.yaml
+++ b/Changelog.yaml
@@ -20,6 +20,41 @@
 #   new recipes:
 #     - title: 
 
+- version: 2.62.0
+  date: 2016-07-08
+
+  new features:
+    - title: "EPUB metadata: Support for reading and writing EPUB 3 specific metadata. Now when processing EPUB 3 files, calibre will generate/use EPUB 3 specific metadata constructs when available, for example for series."
+
+    - title: "Recognize the newest Kindle model, that started shipping today."
+      tickets: [1599970]
+
+  bug fixes:
+    - title: "Tag Mapper: Allow specifying a space as the split character when creating a split tags rule"
+
+    - title: "Tag mapper: Fix upper case characters not working in 'contains' rules"
+
+    - title: "Smarten punctuation: Fix double dashes and triple dots being smartened even inside attribute values."
+      tickets: [1598465]
+
+    - title: "HTML Input: Sanitize semi-colons from HTML filenames as they can cause problems with other EPUB consuming software."
+      tickets: [1598719]
+
+    - title: "EPUB Input: Speed up reading of the book spine from the OPF file for books with a very large number of entries in the spine"
+
+    - title: "Edit Book: Reports: Characters: Fix sorting by count and name not working."
+      tickets: [1598518]
+
+    - title: "Fix KoboTouch configuration migration not working for older settings"
+      tickets: [1598017]
+
+  improved recipes:
+    - The Skeptic
+
+  new recipes:
+    - title: Various Russian news sources 
+      author: bugmen00t
+
 - version: 2.61.0
   date: 2016-07-01
 
diff --git a/src/calibre/constants.py b/src/calibre/constants.py
index 4244cbfce5..d535dbffe2 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, 61, 0)
+numeric_version = (2, 62, 0)
 __version__   = u'.'.join(map(unicode, numeric_version))
 __author__    = u"Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>"