diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 4cb3447938..1984b44ebe 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,86 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## [1.117.0] - 2023-06-15
+
+### Features
+
+- New group membership update algorithm.
+
+  New algorithm improves group consistency
+  in cases of missing messages,
+  restored old backups and replies from classic MUAs.
+
+- Add `DC_EVENT_MSG_DELETED` event.
+
+  This event notifies the UI about the message
+  being deleted from the messagelist, e.g. when the message expires
+  or the user deletes it.
+
+### Fixes
+
+- Emit `DC_EVENT_MSGS_CHANGED` without IDs when the message expires.
+
+  Specifying msg IDs that cannot be loaded in the event payload
+  results in an error when the UI tries to load the message.
+  Instead, emit an event without IDs
+  to make the UI reload the whole messagelist.
+
+- Ignore address case when comparing the `To:` field to `Autocrypt-Gossip:`.
+
+  This bug resulted in failure to propagate verification
+  if the contact list already contained a new verified group member
+  with a non-lowercase address.
+
+- dehtml: skip links with empty text.
+
+  Links like `<a href="https://delta.chat/"></a>` in HTML mails are now skipped
+  instead of being converted to a link without a label like `[](https://delta.chat/)`.
+
+- dehtml: Do not insert unnecessary newlines when parsing `<p>` tags.
+
+- Update from yanked `libc` 0.2.145 to 0.2.146.
+- Update to async-imap 0.9.0 to remove deprecated `ouroboros` dependency.
+
+### API-Changes
+
+- Emit `DC_EVENT_MSGS_CHANGED` per chat when messages are deleted.
+
+  Previously a single event with zero chat ID was emitted.
+
+- python: make `Contact.is_verified()` return bool.
+
+- rust: add API endpoint `get_status_update` ([#4468](https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-core-rust/pull/4468)).
+
+- rust: make `WebxdcManifest` type public.
+
+### Build system
+
+- Use Rust 1.70.0 to compile deltachat-rpc-server releases.
+- Disable unused `brotli` feature `ffi-api` and use 1 codegen-units for release builds to reduce the size of the binaries.
+
+### CI
+
+- Run `cargo check` with musl libc.
+- concourse: Install devpi in a virtual environment.
+- Remove [mergeable](https://mergeable.us/) configuration.
+
+### Documentation
+
+- README: mark napi.rs bindings as experimental. CFFI bindings are not legacy and are the recommended Node.js bindings currently.
+- CONTRIBUTING: document how conventional commits interact with squash merges.
+
+### Refactor
+
+- Rename `MimeMessage.header` into `MimeMessage.headers`.
+
+- Derive `Default` trait for `WebxdcManifest`.
+
+### Tests
+
+- Regression test for case-sensitive comparison of gossip header to contact address.
+- Multiple new group consistency tests in Rust.
+- python: Replace legacy `tmpdir` fixture with `tmp_path`.
+
 ## [1.116.0] - 2023-06-05
 
 ### API-Changes
diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 251bee6a5f..24a4c18198 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1148,7 +1148,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "deltachat"
-version = "1.116.0"
+version = "1.117.0"
 dependencies = [
  "ansi_term",
  "anyhow",
@@ -1224,7 +1224,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "deltachat-jsonrpc"
-version = "1.116.0"
+version = "1.117.0"
 dependencies = [
  "anyhow",
  "async-channel",
@@ -1248,7 +1248,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "deltachat-repl"
-version = "1.116.0"
+version = "1.117.0"
 dependencies = [
  "ansi_term",
  "anyhow",
@@ -1263,7 +1263,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "deltachat-rpc-server"
-version = "1.116.0"
+version = "1.117.0"
 dependencies = [
  "anyhow",
  "deltachat",
@@ -1288,7 +1288,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "deltachat_ffi"
-version = "1.116.0"
+version = "1.117.0"
 dependencies = [
  "anyhow",
  "deltachat",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index c8a595c5cb..56553e32a7 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "deltachat"
-version = "1.116.0"
+version = "1.117.0"
 edition = "2021"
 license = "MPL-2.0"
 rust-version = "1.65"
diff --git a/deltachat-ffi/Cargo.toml b/deltachat-ffi/Cargo.toml
index 3e33bfded0..afd84eace2 100644
--- a/deltachat-ffi/Cargo.toml
+++ b/deltachat-ffi/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "deltachat_ffi"
-version = "1.116.0"
+version = "1.117.0"
 description = "Deltachat FFI"
 edition = "2018"
 readme = "README.md"
diff --git a/deltachat-jsonrpc/Cargo.toml b/deltachat-jsonrpc/Cargo.toml
index 092dd9c307..2ed4735557 100644
--- a/deltachat-jsonrpc/Cargo.toml
+++ b/deltachat-jsonrpc/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "deltachat-jsonrpc"
-version = "1.116.0"
+version = "1.117.0"
 description = "DeltaChat JSON-RPC API"
 edition = "2021"
 default-run = "deltachat-jsonrpc-server"
diff --git a/deltachat-jsonrpc/typescript/package.json b/deltachat-jsonrpc/typescript/package.json
index 51b412b419..bfc3857c04 100644
--- a/deltachat-jsonrpc/typescript/package.json
+++ b/deltachat-jsonrpc/typescript/package.json
@@ -55,5 +55,5 @@
   },
   "type": "module",
   "types": "dist/deltachat.d.ts",
-  "version": "1.116.0"
+  "version": "1.117.0"
 }
diff --git a/deltachat-repl/Cargo.toml b/deltachat-repl/Cargo.toml
index 80a3826da1..7b4f4017db 100644
--- a/deltachat-repl/Cargo.toml
+++ b/deltachat-repl/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "deltachat-repl"
-version = "1.116.0"
+version = "1.117.0"
 license = "MPL-2.0"
 edition = "2021"
 
diff --git a/deltachat-rpc-server/Cargo.toml b/deltachat-rpc-server/Cargo.toml
index 6a8054bbee..55cbf5693c 100644
--- a/deltachat-rpc-server/Cargo.toml
+++ b/deltachat-rpc-server/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "deltachat-rpc-server"
-version = "1.116.0"
+version = "1.117.0"
 description = "DeltaChat JSON-RPC server"
 edition = "2021"
 readme = "README.md"
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 419a8fb068..dda0b4b00f 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -60,5 +60,5 @@
     "test:mocha": "mocha -r esm node/test/test.js --growl --reporter=spec --bail --exit"
   },
   "types": "node/dist/index.d.ts",
-  "version": "1.116.0"
+  "version": "1.117.0"
 }
diff --git a/release-date.in b/release-date.in
index 9fc505c6aa..182773697c 100644
--- a/release-date.in
+++ b/release-date.in
@@ -1 +1 @@
-2023-06-05
\ No newline at end of file
+2023-06-15
\ No newline at end of file