diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index b06133e37..b92268884 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,8 +1,40 @@
 # Changelog 
 
-## UNRELEASED
+## 1.29.0
 
-- removed api: dc_chat_get_subtitle(), dc_get_version_str(), dc_array_add_id()
+- new config options `delete_device_after` and `delete_server_after`,
+  each taking an amount of seconds after which messages
+  are deleted from the device and/or the server #1310 #1335 #1411 #1417 #1423
+
+- new api `dc_estimate_deletion_cnt()` to estimate the effect
+  of `delete_device_after` and `delete_server_after`
+
+- use Ed25519 keys by default, these keys are much shorter
+  than RSA keys, which results in saving traffic and speed improvements #1362
+
+- improve message ellipsizing #1397 #1430
+
+- emit `DC_EVENT_ERROR_NETWORK` also on smtp-errors #1378
+
+- do not show badly formatted non-delta-messages as empty #1384
+
+- try over SMTP on potentially recoverable error 5.5.0 #1379
+
+- remove device-chat from forward-to-chat-list #1367
+
+- improve group-handling #1368
+
+- `dc_get_info()` returns uptime (how long the context is in use)
+
+- python improvements and adaptions #1408 #1415
+
+- log to the stdout and stderr in tests #1416
+
+- refactoring, code improvements #1363 #1365 #1366 #1370 #1375 #1389 #1390 #1418 #1419
+
+- removed api: `dc_chat_get_subtitle()`, `dc_get_version_str()`, `dc_array_add_id()`
+
+- removed events: `DC_EVENT_MEMBER_ADDED`, `DC_EVENT_MEMBER_REMOVED`
 
 
 ## 1.28.0
diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 80c9b4d9f..537beee8e 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -629,7 +629,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "deltachat"
-version = "1.28.0"
+version = "1.29.0"
 dependencies = [
  "anyhow 1.0.28 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
  "async-imap 0.2.0 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
@@ -695,10 +695,10 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "deltachat_ffi"
-version = "1.28.0"
+version = "1.29.0"
 dependencies = [
  "anyhow 1.0.28 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
- "deltachat 1.28.0",
+ "deltachat 1.29.0",
  "human-panic 1.0.3 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
  "libc 0.2.67 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
  "num-traits 0.2.11 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 7d85672b6..583fb0055 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "deltachat"
-version = "1.28.0"
+version = "1.29.0"
 authors = ["Delta Chat Developers (ML) <delta@codespeak.net>"]
 edition = "2018"
 license = "MPL-2.0"
diff --git a/deltachat-ffi/Cargo.toml b/deltachat-ffi/Cargo.toml
index 593dd9c26..a9a723465 100644
--- a/deltachat-ffi/Cargo.toml
+++ b/deltachat-ffi/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "deltachat_ffi"
-version = "1.28.0"
+version = "1.29.0"
 description = "Deltachat FFI"
 authors = ["Delta Chat Developers (ML) <delta@codespeak.net>"]
 edition = "2018"