From b6b1d6c1cb8fbf99781f8ac016f369367bb5b52c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2025 07:12:25 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] version 8.11.0

---
 Changelog.txt            | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/calibre/constants.py |  2 +-
 2 files changed, 36 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Changelog.txt b/Changelog.txt
index d9269a9d56..6084deb91b 100644
--- a/Changelog.txt
+++ b/Changelog.txt
@@ -23,6 +23,41 @@
 # - title by author
 # }}}
 
+{{{ 8.11.0 2025-09-26
+
+:: new features
+
+- [major] E-book viewer: Add an "Ask AI" tab to the dictionary lookup panel. Allows you to query AI about the currently selected text.
+
+  Supports hundreds of AI models via Providers such as Google, OpenRouter, GitHub and locally running models via Ollama.
+  Many of them can be used free of charge. Note that this feature is completely optional and no AI related code is even loaded until you configure an AI provider.
+
+- [2122257] Preferences: Show the keyboard shortcut for each category in preferences in the tooltip
+
+:: bug fixes
+
+- [2122747] E-book viewer: Fix modifying an existing highlight causing duplicates to be created in some books
+
+- E-book viewer: Fix very large e-books sometimes having a few non working links on Windows
+
+- [2123829] PDB Input: Fix failure to convert some PDB files with sightly malformed headers
+
+- [2125438] Fix error when trying to add the first icon rule to the Tag browser
+
+- [2041848] E-book viewer: Fix Esc key not closing footnote popup when the popup has keyboard focus
+
+- E-book viewer: Fix placement of selection handles in some books when modifying an existing highlight
+
+- Windows build: Sign the .pyd DLLs in addition to the .dll DLLs
+
+:: improved recipes
+- New York Times
+- Economist
+- El Diplo
+- New York Review of Books
+
+}}}
+
 {{{ 8.10.0 2025-09-05
 
 :: new features
diff --git a/src/calibre/constants.py b/src/calibre/constants.py
index 8d1f2081b9..99aa7c3424 100644
--- a/src/calibre/constants.py
+++ b/src/calibre/constants.py
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ from functools import lru_cache
 from polyglot.builtins import environ_item, hasenv
 
 __appname__   = 'calibre'
-numeric_version = (8, 10, 101)
+numeric_version = (8, 11, 0)
 __version__   = '.'.join(map(str, numeric_version))
 git_version   = None
 __author__    = 'Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>'