diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index d2abf5f12..bd3cfad98 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,62 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## [2.36.0] - 2026-01-03
+
+### CI
+
+- Pin GitHub Action references.
+
+### API-Changes
+
+- Add transports event to FFI.
+
+### Features / Changes
+
+- Add core version to `receive_imf` failure message.
+- Connectivity view: quota for all transports ([#7630](https://github.com/chatmail/core/pull/7630)).
+- Send sync messages over SMTP and do not move them to mvbox.
+
+### Fixes
+
+- When accepting group, add members with `Origin::IncomingTo` and sort them down in the contact list (7592).
+- Update fallback welcome message.
+- `inner_configure`: Check Config::OnlyFetchMvbox before MvboxMove for multi-transport ([#7637](https://github.com/chatmail/core/pull/7637)).
+- Reset options not available for chatmail on chatmail profiles.
+- Don't send webxdc notification for `notify: "*"` when chat is muted ([#7658](https://github.com/chatmail/core/pull/7658)).
+
+### Documentation
+
+- `delete_chat()`: don't lie that messages aren't deleted from server.
+- Remove references to removed `sentbox_watch` config.
+- Update documentation for `TransportsModified` event.
+
+### Tests
+
+- Contact list after accepting group with unknown contacts ([#7592](https://github.com/chatmail/core/pull/7592)).
+- Port test_import_export_online_all to JSON-RPC ([#7411](https://github.com/chatmail/core/pull/7411)).
+
+### Refactor
+
+- Turn `DC_VERSION_STR` into `&str`.
+- ffi: Remove one pointer indirection for `dc_accounts_t`.
+
+### Miscellaneous Tasks
+
+- deps: Bump actions/download-artifact from 6 to 7.
+- deps: Bump actions/upload-artifact from 5 to 6.
+- deps: Bump astral-sh/setup-uv from 7.1.4 to 7.1.6.
+- deps: Bump cachix/install-nix-action from 31.8.4 to 31.9.0.
+- cargo: Bump serde_json from 1.0.145 to 1.0.147.
+- cargo: Bump uuid from 1.18.1 to 1.19.0.
+- cargo: Bump toml from 0.9.8 to 0.9.10+spec-1.1.0.
+- cargo: Bump tempfile from 3.23.0 to 3.24.0.
+- cargo: Bump libc from 0.2.177 to 0.2.178.
+- cargo: Bump tracing from 0.1.41 to 0.1.44.
+- cargo: Bump hyper-util from 0.1.18 to 0.1.19.
+- cargo: Bump log from 0.4.28 to 0.4.29.
+- cargo: Bump rustls-pki-types from 1.13.0 to 1.13.2.
+- cargo: Bump criterion from 0.7.0 to 0.8.1.
+
 ## [2.35.0] - 2025-12-16
 
 ### API-Changes
@@ -7449,3 +7506,4 @@ https://github.com/chatmail/core/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aclosed
 [2.33.0]: https://github.com/chatmail/core/compare/v2.32.0..v2.33.0
 [2.34.0]: https://github.com/chatmail/core/compare/v2.33.0..v2.34.0
 [2.35.0]: https://github.com/chatmail/core/compare/v2.34.0..v2.35.0
+[2.36.0]: https://github.com/chatmail/core/compare/v2.35.0..v2.36.0
diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 075dc2f7e..3d2142f49 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1315,7 +1315,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "deltachat"
-version = "2.35.0"
+version = "2.36.0"
 dependencies = [
  "anyhow",
  "astral-tokio-tar",
@@ -1425,7 +1425,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "deltachat-jsonrpc"
-version = "2.35.0"
+version = "2.36.0"
 dependencies = [
  "anyhow",
  "async-channel 2.5.0",
@@ -1446,7 +1446,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "deltachat-repl"
-version = "2.35.0"
+version = "2.36.0"
 dependencies = [
  "anyhow",
  "deltachat",
@@ -1462,7 +1462,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "deltachat-rpc-server"
-version = "2.35.0"
+version = "2.36.0"
 dependencies = [
  "anyhow",
  "deltachat",
@@ -1491,7 +1491,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "deltachat_ffi"
-version = "2.35.0"
+version = "2.36.0"
 dependencies = [
  "anyhow",
  "deltachat",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index b3f2f5a67..5b2655a6c 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "deltachat"
-version = "2.35.0"
+version = "2.36.0"
 edition = "2024"
 license = "MPL-2.0"
 rust-version = "1.88"
diff --git a/deltachat-ffi/Cargo.toml b/deltachat-ffi/Cargo.toml
index d65fb9722..df756728d 100644
--- a/deltachat-ffi/Cargo.toml
+++ b/deltachat-ffi/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "deltachat_ffi"
-version = "2.35.0"
+version = "2.36.0"
 description = "Deltachat FFI"
 edition = "2018"
 readme = "README.md"
diff --git a/deltachat-jsonrpc/Cargo.toml b/deltachat-jsonrpc/Cargo.toml
index 9a737ba27..705b47a56 100644
--- a/deltachat-jsonrpc/Cargo.toml
+++ b/deltachat-jsonrpc/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "deltachat-jsonrpc"
-version = "2.35.0"
+version = "2.36.0"
 description = "DeltaChat JSON-RPC API"
 edition = "2021"
 license = "MPL-2.0"
diff --git a/deltachat-jsonrpc/typescript/package.json b/deltachat-jsonrpc/typescript/package.json
index d51abef81..865c15190 100644
--- a/deltachat-jsonrpc/typescript/package.json
+++ b/deltachat-jsonrpc/typescript/package.json
@@ -54,5 +54,5 @@
   },
   "type": "module",
   "types": "dist/deltachat.d.ts",
-  "version": "2.35.0"
+  "version": "2.36.0"
 }
diff --git a/deltachat-repl/Cargo.toml b/deltachat-repl/Cargo.toml
index 2831e1212..5aa0b6f9a 100644
--- a/deltachat-repl/Cargo.toml
+++ b/deltachat-repl/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "deltachat-repl"
-version = "2.35.0"
+version = "2.36.0"
 license = "MPL-2.0"
 edition = "2021"
 repository = "https://github.com/chatmail/core"
diff --git a/deltachat-rpc-client/pyproject.toml b/deltachat-rpc-client/pyproject.toml
index 147e5a8b9..4d5f9074d 100644
--- a/deltachat-rpc-client/pyproject.toml
+++ b/deltachat-rpc-client/pyproject.toml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
 
 [project]
 name = "deltachat-rpc-client"
-version = "2.35.0"
+version = "2.36.0"
 license = "MPL-2.0"
 description = "Python client for Delta Chat core JSON-RPC interface"
 classifiers = [
diff --git a/deltachat-rpc-server/Cargo.toml b/deltachat-rpc-server/Cargo.toml
index b8d1ad170..f866534bc 100644
--- a/deltachat-rpc-server/Cargo.toml
+++ b/deltachat-rpc-server/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "deltachat-rpc-server"
-version = "2.35.0"
+version = "2.36.0"
 description = "DeltaChat JSON-RPC server"
 edition = "2021"
 readme = "README.md"
diff --git a/deltachat-rpc-server/npm-package/package.json b/deltachat-rpc-server/npm-package/package.json
index 2cdac26ea..ff28fa70a 100644
--- a/deltachat-rpc-server/npm-package/package.json
+++ b/deltachat-rpc-server/npm-package/package.json
@@ -15,5 +15,5 @@
   },
   "type": "module",
   "types": "index.d.ts",
-  "version": "2.35.0"
+  "version": "2.36.0"
 }
diff --git a/python/pyproject.toml b/python/pyproject.toml
index a5f6c98f0..6fb421202 100644
--- a/python/pyproject.toml
+++ b/python/pyproject.toml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
 
 [project]
 name = "deltachat"
-version = "2.35.0"
+version = "2.36.0"
 license = "MPL-2.0"
 description = "Python bindings for the Delta Chat Core library using CFFI against the Rust-implemented libdeltachat"
 readme = "README.rst"
diff --git a/release-date.in b/release-date.in
index 235d1196b..707442047 100644
--- a/release-date.in
+++ b/release-date.in
@@ -1 +1 @@
-2025-12-16
\ No newline at end of file
+2026-01-03
\ No newline at end of file