diff --git a/Changelog.yaml b/Changelog.yaml
index a25b52bfbf..8fecf3d95e 100644
--- a/Changelog.yaml
+++ b/Changelog.yaml
@@ -19,6 +19,73 @@
 #  new recipes:
 #    - title: 
 
+- version: 0.7.50
+  date: 2011-03-18
+
+  new features:
+    - title: "Add 'Read a random book' to the view menu"
+
+    - title: "Add option to show composite columns in the tag browser."
+
+    - title: "Add a tweak in Preferences->Tweaks to control where news that is automatically uploaded to a reader is sent."
+      tickets: [9427]
+
+    - title: "Do not also show text in composite columns when showing an icon"
+
+    - title: "Add a menu item to clear the last viewed books history in the ebook viewer"
+
+    - title: "Kobo driver: Add support for the 'Closed' collection"
+
+    - title: "Add rename/delete saved search options to Tag browser context menu"
+
+    - title: "Make searches in the tag browser a possible hierarchical field"
+  
+    - title: "Allow using empty username and password when setting up an SMTP relay"
+      tickets: [9195]
+ 
+  bug fixes:
+    - title: "Fix regression in 0.7.49 that broke deleting of news downloads older than x days."
+      tickets: [9417]
+
+    - title: "Restore the ability to remove missing formats from metadata.db to the Check Library operation"
+      tickets: [9377]
+
+    - title: "EPUB metadata: Read ISBN from Penguin epubs that dont correctly specify it"
+
+    - title: "Conversion pipeline: Handle the case where the ncx file is incorrectly given an HTML mimetype"
+
+    - title: "Make numpad navigation keys work in viewer"
+      tickets: [9428]
+
+    - title: "Fix ratings not being downloaded from Amazon"
+
+    - title: "Content server: Add workaround for Internet Explorer not supporting the ' entity."
+      tickets: [9413]
+
+    - title: "Conversion pipeline: When detecting chapters/toc links from HTML normalize spaces and increase maximum TOC title length to 1000 characters from 100 characters."
+      tickets: [9363]
+
+    - title: "Fix regression that broke Search and Replace on custom fields"
+      tickets: [9397]
+
+    - title: "Fix regression that caused currently selected row to be unfocussed int he device view when updataing metadata"
+      tickets: [9395]
+
+    - title: "Coversion S&R: Do not strip leading and trailing whitespace from the search and replace expressions in the GUI"
+
+
+  improved recipes:
+    - Sports Illustrated
+    - Draw and Cook
+
+  new recipes:
+    - title: "Evangelizo.org  and pro-linux.de"
+      author: Bobus
+
+    - title: "Office Space and Modoros"
+      author: Zsolt Botykai
+
+
 - version: 0.7.49
   date: 2011-03-11
 
@@ -47,7 +114,7 @@
 
     - title: "When setting covers in calibre, resize to fit within a maximum size of (1200, 1600), to prevent slowdowns due to extra large covers. This size can be controlled via Preferences->Tweaks."
       tickets: [9277]
-  
+
   bug fixes:
     - title: "Fix long standing bug that caused errors when saving books to disk if the book metadata has certain chinese/russian characters on windows. The fix required some changes to how unicode paths are handled in calibre, so it might have broken something else. If so, please open a ticket."
       tickets: [7250]
diff --git a/src/calibre/constants.py b/src/calibre/constants.py
index 0013486506..3a8425d587 100644
--- a/src/calibre/constants.py
+++ b/src/calibre/constants.py
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ __license__   = 'GPL v3'
 __copyright__ = '2008, Kovid Goyal kovid@kovidgoyal.net'
 __docformat__ = 'restructuredtext en'
 __appname__   = 'calibre'
-__version__   = '0.7.49'
+__version__   = '0.7.50'
 __author__    = "Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>"
 
 import re