diff --git a/Changelog.yaml b/Changelog.yaml
index f48d0fc2c0..8f2dcdee16 100644
--- a/Changelog.yaml
+++ b/Changelog.yaml
@@ -4,6 +4,85 @@
 # for important features/bug fixes.
 # Also, each release can have new and improved recipes.
 
+- version: 0.6.44
+  date: 2010-03-05
+
+  new features:
+    - title: "Experimental support for conversion of CHM files"
+      type: major
+      description : >
+        "Conversion and reading of metadata from CHM files is now supported. This feature is
+        still experimental, with more testing needed. Building from source on linux now 
+        requires chmlib."
+
+    - title: "Experimental support for fetching annotations from the Kindles"
+      type: major
+      description: >
+        "calibre can now fetch annotations from your kindle and put them into the
+        comments field. To fetch annotations, click the arrow next to the 
+        'send to device' button and select 'Fetch Annotations', with your Kindle
+        connected."
+
+    - title: "Support FreeBSD out of the box (except USB)"
+      type: major
+      tickets: [4715]
+
+
+    - title: "News download scheduler: Don't try to download news when no active internet connection is present (linux/windows only)"
+
+    - title: "EPUB to WPUB conversion: Preserve font encryption"
+
+    - title: "calibre-server: Add --pidfile and --daemonize (unix only) options"
+
+    - title: "Plugins: When loading a plugin zip file extract to temp dir and add to sys.path, if the zip file contains binay code (pyd/dll/so/dylib), instead of just adding the zip file to the path, as python cannot load compiled code from a zip file"
+
+
+
+  bug fixes:
+    - title: "Ebook-viewer: Handle non-ascii CSS files when doing font substitutions"
+
+    - title: "Conversion pipline: Ignore non-integral play orders when parsing NCX files"
+
+    - title: "When decoding NCX toc files, if no encoding is declared and detection has less that 100% confidence, assume UTF-8."
+      tickets: [5039]
+
+    - title: "PML chapter definitions missing from toc.ncx"
+      tickets: [4990]
+
+    - title: "Unicode string for cover causes calibredb --output-format stanza to fail"
+      ticket: [5035]
+
+    - title: "Search cover:False fails, cover:True succeeds"
+      tickets: [5034]
+
+    - title: "Plugins: correctly use context"
+
+    - title: "MOBI Input: Don't lose cover if it is also referred to in main text"
+      ticket: [5020]
+
+    - title: "RTF Output: Don't choke on PNG images"
+
+  new recipes:
+    - title: Journal of Hospital Medicine, San Francisco Bay Guardian, Smithsonian Magazine
+      author: Krittika Goyal
+
+    - title: Astronomy Pick of the Day, Epicurious
+      author: Starson17
+
+    - title: Diario Vasco, Various Chilean newspapers
+      author: Darko Miletic
+
+    - title: Kukuburi
+      author: Mori
+
+
+  improved recipes:
+    - Ars Technica
+    - Fudzilla
+    - The Atlantic
+    - The Economist
+    - Huffington Post
+
 - version: 0.6.43
   date: 2010-02-26
 
diff --git a/resources/recipes/the_escapist.recipe b/resources/recipes/the_escapist.recipe
index e0bfba1ece..6ff8debe53 100644
--- a/resources/recipes/the_escapist.recipe
+++ b/resources/recipes/the_escapist.recipe
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe
 
 class al(BasicNewsRecipe):
     author        = 'Lorenzo Vigentini'
-    description   = 'the Escapist Magazine'
+    description   = 'The Escapist Magazine'
 
     cover_url      = 'http://cdn.themis-media.com/themes/escapistmagazine/default/images/logo.png'
     title          = u'the Escapist Magazine'
diff --git a/src/calibre/constants.py b/src/calibre/constants.py
index c88112b86c..9a18708d84 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__   = '0.6.43'
+__version__   = '0.6.44'
 __author__    = "Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>"
 
 import re