diff --git a/CHANGELOG.txt b/CHANGELOG.txt
index 31610e67c..235d374f5 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.txt
+++ b/CHANGELOG.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,34 @@
+0.50.0
+
+musikcube:
+* added last.fm scrobbling support (settings > last.fm)
+* added a built-in hotkey viewer and editor (settings > key bindings)
+* added basic mouse handling support -- click / double click / mouse wheel
+  works mostly the way you'd expect
+* added an Italian translation (anonik9900)
+* added a Russian translation (adem4ik)
+* added a "proportional seek" functionality (benterris)
+* fixed a bug where the "Source Code Pro" font was not being included in the
+  win32 build with milkdrop.
+* added support for Ubuntu Bionic
+* added support for Fedora 28
+* added windows theme support so the menu bar draws nicer
+* updated PDCurses (windows build)
+
+musikdroid:
+* fixed a handful of random crashes that showed up in fabric.io
+
+server:
+* fixed a bug where the same playback overview may be broadcast multiple
+  times.
+* fixed a bug where `set_volume` was not returning a response
+* fixed a couple bugs where negative limits may be returned
+
+sdk:
+* added a simple HttpClient wrapper around libcurl that can be used by plugins
+
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
 0.42.0
 
 musikcube:
diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 2b44be079..26e0d02b1 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.0)
 
 project(musikcube)
 set (musikcube_VERSION_MAJOR 0)
-set (musikcube_VERSION_MINOR 42)
+set (musikcube_VERSION_MINOR 50)
 set (musikcube_VERSION_PATCH 0)
 set (musikcube_VERSION "${musikcube_VERSION_MAJOR}.${musikcube_VERSION_MINOR}.${musikcube_VERSION_PATCH}")
 
diff --git a/musikcube.spec b/musikcube.spec
index 5d6c33440..57775156a 100644
--- a/musikcube.spec
+++ b/musikcube.spec
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 %define name musikcube
 %define build_timestamp %{lua: print(os.date("%Y%m%d"))}
-%define version 0.42.0
+%define version 0.50.0
 Name: %{name}
 Version: %{version}
 Release: %{dist}
diff --git a/src/musikcube/app/version.h b/src/musikcube/app/version.h
index 30022b350..859945a42 100644
--- a/src/musikcube/app/version.h
+++ b/src/musikcube/app/version.h
@@ -3,9 +3,9 @@
 #include <string>
 
 #define VERSION_MAJOR 0
-#define VERSION_MINOR 42
+#define VERSION_MINOR 50
 #define VERSION_PATCH 0
-#define VERSION "0.42.0"
+#define VERSION "0.50.0"
 
 namespace musik {
     namespace cube {
diff --git a/src/musikcube/musikcube.rc b/src/musikcube/musikcube.rc
index 6eafeefec..a1998184b 100644
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