From ca1c006effd243ace3d81fcc41496fbc65146c3a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2025 09:34:22 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] version 8.13.0

---
 Changelog.txt            | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/calibre/constants.py |  2 +-
 2 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Changelog.txt b/Changelog.txt
index 8021f6ba22..20ba315ec7 100644
--- a/Changelog.txt
+++ b/Changelog.txt
@@ -23,6 +23,29 @@
 # - title by author
 # }}}
 
+{{{ 8.13.0 2025-10-18
+
+:: new features
+
+- [2126881] Virtual libraries: Allow defining their search expressions more comfortably in a multi-line edit box
+
+- Open with: On Windows launch the specified program via the windows API for executing programs to decouple it more thoroughly from the calibre environment
+
+:: bug fixes
+
+- Get books: Fix ebooks.com plugin
+
+- calibre-server: Fix CALIBRE_OVERRIDE_DATABASE_PATH not working
+
+- Export library: Dont use /tmp on Linux fixes export breaking with large FTS database on Linux distros that mount /tmp in RAM
+
+- [2126611] Fix a regression in 8.11 that caused errors when trying to open a book from the full text search results while the search was still running
+
+:: improved recipes
+- Todoist
+- NZZ
+}}}
+
 {{{ 8.12.0 2025-10-01
 
 :: new features
diff --git a/src/calibre/constants.py b/src/calibre/constants.py
index 578608f815..bb97bede4a 100644
--- a/src/calibre/constants.py
+++ b/src/calibre/constants.py
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ from functools import lru_cache
 from polyglot.builtins import environ_item, hasenv
 
 __appname__   = 'calibre'
-numeric_version = (8, 12, 100)
+numeric_version = (8, 13, 0)
 __version__   = '.'.join(map(str, numeric_version))
 git_version   = None
 __author__    = 'Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>'