diff --git a/CHANGES.rst b/CHANGES.rst
index f1529e79bd..aaa4a2c219 100644
--- a/CHANGES.rst
+++ b/CHANGES.rst
@@ -1,3 +1,38 @@
+Changes in synapse v0.24.0-rc1 (2017-10-19)
+===========================================
+
+Features:
+
+* Add Group Server (PR #2352, #2363, #2374, #2377, #2378, #2382, #2410, #2426,
+  #2430, #2454, #2471, #2472, #2544)
+* Add support for channel notifications (PR #2501)
+* Add basic implementation of backup media store (PR #2538)
+* Add config option to auto-join new users to rooms (PR #2545)
+
+
+Changes:
+
+* Make the spam checker a module (PR #2474)
+* Delete expired url cache data (PR #2478)
+* Ignore incoming events for rooms that we have left (PR #2490)
+* Allow spam checker to reject invites too (PR #2492)
+* Add room creation checks to spam checker (PR #2495)
+* Spam checking: add the invitee to user_may_invite (PR #2502)
+* Process events from federation for different rooms in parallel (PR #2520)
+* Allow error strings from spam checker (PR #2531)
+
+
+Bug fixes:
+
+* Fix handling SERVFAILs when doing AAAA lookups for federation (PR #2477)
+* Fix incompatibility with newer versions of ujson (PR #2483) Thanks to
+  @jeremycline!
+* Fix notification keywords that start/end with non-word chars (PR #2500)
+* Fix stack overflow and logcontexts from linearizer (PR #2532)
+* Fix 500 error when fields missing from power_levels event (PR #2552)
+* Fix 500 error when we get an error handling a PDU (PR #2553)
+
+
 Changes in synapse v0.23.1 (2017-10-02)
 =======================================
 
diff --git a/synapse/__init__.py b/synapse/__init__.py
index bee4aba625..c867d1cfd8 100644
--- a/synapse/__init__.py
+++ b/synapse/__init__.py
@@ -16,4 +16,4 @@
 """ This is a reference implementation of a Matrix home server.
 """
 
-__version__ = "0.23.1"
+__version__ = "0.24.0"