diff --git a/Changelog.yaml b/Changelog.yaml
index 3fb690d094..2283b2fa8d 100644
--- a/Changelog.yaml
+++ b/Changelog.yaml
@@ -20,6 +20,27 @@
 #   new recipes:
 #     - title:
 
+- version: 3.36.0
+  date: 2018-12-21
+
+  new features:
+    - title: "Happy Holidays to everyone!"
+
+    - title: "Kobo driver: Add supported for newly released firmware update"
+
+  bug fixes:
+    - title: "Kobo driver: Fix a regression in the last release that caused book title
+to appear as unknown if metadata management was set to manual in calibre."
+      tickets: [1807914]
+
+    - title: "PDF Output: Do not fail if one of th efonts from the source document has no name metadata"
+
+  improved recipes:
+    - Wall Street Journal
+    - ESPN
+    - Al Jazeera (English)
+
+
 - version: 3.35.0
   date: 2018-12-07
 
diff --git a/src/calibre/constants.py b/src/calibre/constants.py
index 482e92c62a..dcce22f556 100644
--- a/src/calibre/constants.py
+++ b/src/calibre/constants.py
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ from polyglot.builtins import map
 import sys, locale, codecs, os, importlib, collections
 
 __appname__   = u'calibre'
-numeric_version = (3, 35, 0)
+numeric_version = (3, 36, 0)
 __version__   = u'.'.join(map(unicode, numeric_version))
 __author__    = u"Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>"