diff --git a/Changelog.yaml b/Changelog.yaml
index d5aa03127b..6315896b30 100644
--- a/Changelog.yaml
+++ b/Changelog.yaml
@@ -20,6 +20,39 @@
 #   new recipes:
 #     - title: 
 
+- version: 2.73.0
+  date: 2016-11-25
+
+  new features:
+    - title: "Add a preference in Preferences->Look & Feel to hide the row numbers in the main book list."
+      tickets: [1643313]
+
+    - title: "Allow Export/Import of column coloring and icon rules."
+      tickets: [1643314]
+
+    - title: "Edit Book: Allow bulk changing of file extension for selected files by right clicking ont he selected files in the file browser."
+      tickets: [1643232]
+
+    - title: "Edit Book: Check Book: Add a check for nav documents that contain no ToC in EPUB 3 books"
+
+    - title:  "Edit Book: Check Book: Add a test to check if the embedded fonts in the book have their embedding permissions enabled"
+
+  bug fixes:
+    - title: "Pressing the up arrow in an date edit with undefined value should jump to the current date rather than Feb 101"
+
+    - title: "EPUB Input: When an invalid nav based ToC is used in an EPUB 3.0 document that also has a fallback NCX ToC, use the fallback ToC."
+      tickets: [1643247]
+
+    - title: "Fix a regression that broke the icon theme creation tool in the previous release"
+      tickets: [1643228]
+
+    - title: "Fix insert character dialog not reflowing characters on resize. Also only allow the search bar in the dialog to get input focus"
+
+  improved recipes:
+    - Dilbert
+    - The Hindu
+
+
 - version: 2.72.0
   date: 2016-11-18
 
diff --git a/src/calibre/constants.py b/src/calibre/constants.py
index 56f3fbba64..e597727f94 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, 72, 0)
+numeric_version = (2, 73, 0)
 __version__   = u'.'.join(map(unicode, numeric_version))
 __author__    = u"Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>"
 
@@ -62,6 +62,7 @@ def get_osx_version():
             _osx_ver = OSX(0, 0, 0)
     return _osx_ver
 
+
 filesystem_encoding = sys.getfilesystemencoding()
 if filesystem_encoding is None:
     filesystem_encoding = 'utf-8'
@@ -84,6 +85,7 @@ def debug():
     global DEBUG
     DEBUG = True
 
+
 _cache_dir = None
 
 
@@ -321,6 +323,7 @@ def get_windows_user_locale_name():
         return None
     return u'_'.join(buf.value.split(u'-')[:2])
 
+
 number_formats = None