diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 899d017a3..cecfd6723 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,19 @@
 # Changelog 
 
+## 1.28.0
+
+- new flag DC_GCL_FOR_FORWARDING for dc_get_chatlist()
+  that will sort the "saved messages" chat to the top of the chatlist #1336
+- mark mails as being deleted from server in dc_empty_server() #1333
+- fix interaction with servers that do not allow folder creation on root-level;
+  use path separator as defined by the email server #1359
+- fix group creation if group was created by non-delta clients #1357
+- fix showing replies from non-delta clients #1353
+- fix member list on rejoining left groups #1343
+- fix crash when using empty groups #1354
+- fix potential crash on special names #1350
+
+
 ## 1.27.0
 
 - handle keys reliably on armv7 #1327
diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 80c6478ae..1ae331de3 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -624,7 +624,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "deltachat"
-version = "1.27.0"
+version = "1.28.0"
 dependencies = [
  "async-imap 0.2.0 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
  "async-native-tls 0.3.2 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
@@ -690,9 +690,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "deltachat_ffi"
-version = "1.27.0"
+version = "1.28.0"
 dependencies = [
- "deltachat 1.27.0",
+ "deltachat 1.28.0",
  "failure 0.1.6 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
  "human-panic 1.0.1 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
  "libc 0.2.67 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 55ac0054a..d54e42468 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "deltachat"
-version = "1.27.0"
+version = "1.28.0"
 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 2f37da72d..8901dffec 100644
--- a/deltachat-ffi/Cargo.toml
+++ b/deltachat-ffi/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "deltachat_ffi"
-version = "1.27.0"
+version = "1.28.0"
 description = "Deltachat FFI"
 authors = ["Delta Chat Developers (ML) <delta@codespeak.net>"]
 edition = "2018"