diff --git a/Changelog.txt b/Changelog.txt
index 6ce3947dae..9d3f4c86d9 100644
--- a/Changelog.txt
+++ b/Changelog.txt
@@ -23,6 +23,55 @@
 # - title by author
 # }}}
 
+{{{ 6.25.0 2023-08-18
+
+:: new features
+
+- [2029723] Book details panel: De-emphasize titles making the actual data stand out more
+
+- Allow using the new manage data files dialog from within the edit metadata dialog
+
+- [2030342] Trash dialog: Allow right clicking on an entry to save it to disk
+
+- [2027794] When merging books by drag-and-drop add an option to use the dragged cover instead of the cover in the target book
+
+- [2031571] Create catalog: Add buttons to easily select all/non/visible fields when creating CSV/XML catalogs
+
+- [2031570] Preferences->Add your own columns: Add buttons to show/hide all columns
+
+:: bug fixes
+
+- [2031341] Fix a regression in the previous release that broke parsing of some ISO-8601 timestamps
+
+- [2030671] E-book viewer: Mouse wheel horizontal events should jump sections not internal file boundaries
+
+- [2031569] Fix Preferences->Add your own columns changing check state on moving columns
+
+- Get books: update various Polish e-book stores for website changes
+
+- [2029521] E-book viewer: Fix CFI parsing of numbers with trailing zeros causing some bookmarks to not work
+
+- [2029521] E-book viewer: Show an error when creating a bookmark if the bookmark position is not found
+
+- [2031047] CBR Input: Fix comics with extremely long internal filenames not working on Windows
+
+- Edit book: Saved searches: Fix incorrect import in generated source code for some builtin functions
+
+- Data file manager: Fix errors on systems with larger font sizes
+
+:: improved recipes
+- Bloomberg
+- Focus
+- Epoch Times
+- Hindu
+- Business Today
+- NYTimes
+
+:: new recipes
+- The Oldie by Sophist
+- Various new Russian and Ukrainian news sources
+}}}
+
 {{{ 6.24.0 2023-08-04
 
 :: new features
diff --git a/src/calibre/constants.py b/src/calibre/constants.py
index 481aa48d4d..ab8c40fafb 100644
--- a/src/calibre/constants.py
+++ b/src/calibre/constants.py
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ from functools import lru_cache
 import sys, locale, codecs, os, collections, collections.abc
 
 __appname__   = 'calibre'
-numeric_version = (6, 24, 0)
+numeric_version = (6, 25, 0)
 __version__   = '.'.join(map(str, numeric_version))
 git_version   = None
 __author__    = "Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>"