diff --git a/Changelog.yaml b/Changelog.yaml
index 758f16d9f3..2764921f87 100644
--- a/Changelog.yaml
+++ b/Changelog.yaml
@@ -20,6 +20,33 @@
 #   new recipes:
 #     - title:
 
+- version: 4.19.0
+  date: 2020-06-19
+
+  new features:
+    - title: "Manage authors dialog: Improve performance in very large libraries"
+
+  bug fixes:
+    - title: "Book details panel: Fix a regression that caused right clicking on an author name to manage it not opening with that name selected."
+      tickets: [1883768]
+
+    - title: "calibredb set_metadata: When converting a string into a datetime if the string is a full ISO 8601 date with timezone do not adjust the date to make it timezone neutral."
+      tickets: [1883433]
+
+    - title: "Edit book: Fix Check book spuriously reporting incorrect mime type warnings for fonts after upgrading a book from EPUB 2 to EPUB 3."
+      tickets: [1882436]
+
+    - title: "Book details panel: Dont show sizes less than 0.01MB as zero."
+      tickets: [1882469]
+
+    - title: "Viewer: Fix jump to previous section not working when viewer is on last section"
+
+  improved recipes:
+    - Journal of Accountancy
+    - Bangkok Post
+    - "20 minutes"
+
+
 - version: 4.18.0
   date: 2020-06-05
 
diff --git a/src/calibre/constants.py b/src/calibre/constants.py
index fc203cb407..6ba548ce08 100644
--- a/src/calibre/constants.py
+++ b/src/calibre/constants.py
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ from polyglot.builtins import map, unicode_type, environ_item, hasenv, getenv, a
 import sys, locale, codecs, os, importlib, collections
 
 __appname__   = 'calibre'
-numeric_version = (4, 18, 0)
+numeric_version = (4, 19, 0)
 __version__   = '.'.join(map(unicode_type, numeric_version))
 git_version   = None
 __author__    = "Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>"