diff --git a/CHANGELOG.rst b/CHANGELOG.rst
index 3e9ebebbf..22848e436 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.rst
+++ b/CHANGELOG.rst
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 Changelog for python-chess
 ==========================
 
-Upcoming in the next release
-----------------------------
+New in v0.19.0
+--------------
 
 New features:
 
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ Changes:
   no longer support directly opening a directory.
   Use `chess.gaviota.open_tablebases()`.
 * `chess.Board` instances are now compared by the position they represent,
-  not by exact match of the internal data structures or move history.
+  not by exact match of the internal data structures (or even move history).
 * Relaxed castling right validation in Chess960: Kings/rooks of opposing sites
   are no longer required to be on the same file.
 * Removed misnamed `Piece.__unicode__()` and `BaseBoard.__unicode__()`. Use
diff --git a/chess/__init__.py b/chess/__init__.py
index e29a373f2..62a2a6722 100644
--- a/chess/__init__.py
+++ b/chess/__init__.py
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
 
 __email__ = "niklas.fiekas@backscattering.de"
 
-__version__ = "0.18.4"
+__version__ = "0.19.0"
 
 import copy
 import re