diff --git a/Changelog.yaml b/Changelog.yaml
index 8455d05434..75dcd529a5 100644
--- a/Changelog.yaml
+++ b/Changelog.yaml
@@ -20,6 +20,36 @@
 #   new recipes:
 #     - title:
 
+- version: 4.6.0
+  date: 2019-12-13
+
+  new features:
+    - title: "Windows 10: Add support for the dark mode."
+      type: major
+      description: "If you turn on dark mode under the Windows Settings->Personalisation->Colors and restart calibre it will use dark colors. Can also be enabled by setting the CALIBRE_USE_DARK_PALETTE environment variable."
+
+    - title: "Polish books tool: Add a setting to add or remove soft hyphens from the book text"
+
+    - title: "Viewer: Re-enable the old reference mode from calibre 3.x"
+
+  bug fixes:
+    - title: "PDF Output: Fix the option to break long words at the end of lines not working since calibre 4."
+      tickets: [1854349]
+
+    - title: "DOCX Input: Fix incorrect font sizes for footnote references in paragraphs that have text with multiple font sizes."
+      tickets: [1855403]
+
+    - title: "DOCX Input: Avoid nested <sup> tags for footnote references"
+
+    - title: "Viewer: Fix max text width/height settings not being applied correctly on window resize."
+      tickets: [1854211]
+
+    - title: "Viewer: Auto-expand entries in the Table of Contents when viewing the corresponding location in the book."
+
+    - title: "Viewer: When creating a new bookmark, if there is selected text use it as the default bookmark title."
+      tickets: [1854611]
+
+
 - version: 4.5.0
   date: 2019-11-29
 
diff --git a/src/calibre/constants.py b/src/calibre/constants.py
index 890123ced5..e87e08a988 100644
--- a/src/calibre/constants.py
+++ b/src/calibre/constants.py
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ from polyglot.builtins import map, unicode_type, environ_item, hasenv, getenv, a
 import sys, locale, codecs, os, importlib, collections
 
 __appname__   = 'calibre'
-numeric_version = (4, 5, 0)
+numeric_version = (4, 6, 0)
 __version__   = '.'.join(map(unicode_type, numeric_version))
 git_version   = None
 __author__    = "Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>"