diff --git a/Changelog.txt b/Changelog.txt
index 6a108ac27b..baf842b5d5 100644
--- a/Changelog.txt
+++ b/Changelog.txt
@@ -23,6 +23,42 @@
 # - title by author
 # }}}
 
+{{{ 6.13.0 2023-02-17
+
+:: new features
+
+- Content server: E-book viewer: Long tapping on an image now causes it to be displayed in an internal popup rather than a new window as some browsers block the creation of new windows
+
+:: bug fixes
+
+- E-book viewer: Fix some adjacent highlights with nothing in between them not being displayed.
+
+- [2006726] Content server: Workaround for Safari regression causing bookmarks to disappear on reload
+
+- [2007039] E-book viewer: Read aloud: Fix a regression in the previous release that caused the Read aloud controls to not reappear when Read aloud is canceled and restarted
+
+- [2006062] E-book viewer: Read aloud: Fix a regression in the previous release that caused an error when using Read aloud on a chapter with no text, such as the cover page
+
+- E-book viewer: Fix a regression that caused a spurious error on Windows when reading out selected text
+
+- [2007165] Fix a regression in calibre 5.0 that broke sorting the device view by title if one of the books has an empty title
+
+- Edit book: Spell Check dialog: Fix second word not getting selected when after first word is fixed
+
+- [2004621] Improve hover highlight color in tree views
+
+:: improved recipes
+- CNN
+- Bloomberg
+
+:: new recipes
+- The Economist Espresso by unkn0wn
+- Science X by unkn0wn
+- Horizons by unkn0wn
+- Deccan Herald by unkn0wn
+- The Monthly by unkn0wn
+}}}
+
 {{{ 6.12.0 2023-02-03
 
 :: new features
diff --git a/src/calibre/constants.py b/src/calibre/constants.py
index 450a1078d4..846b5ee5de 100644
--- a/src/calibre/constants.py
+++ b/src/calibre/constants.py
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ from functools import lru_cache
 import sys, locale, codecs, os, collections, collections.abc
 
 __appname__   = 'calibre'
-numeric_version = (6, 12, 0)
+numeric_version = (6, 13, 0)
 __version__   = '.'.join(map(str, numeric_version))
 git_version   = None
 __author__    = "Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>"