diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 56c95063b..dccc65a2b 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,93 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## [2.23.0] - 2025-11-01
+
+### API-Changes
+
+- Make `dc_chat_is_protected` always return 0.
+- [**breaking**] Remove public APIs to check if the chat is protected.
+- [**breaking**] Remove APIs to create protected chats.
+- [**breaking**] Remove Chat.is_protected().
+- deltachat-rpc-client: Add Account.add_transport_from_qr() API.
+- JSON-RPC: add `get_push_state` to check push notification state ([#7356](https://github.com/chatmail/core/pull/7356)).
+- JSON-RPC: remove unused TypeScript constants ([#7355](https://github.com/chatmail/core/pull/7355)).
+- Remove `Config::SentboxWatch` ([#7178](https://github.com/chatmail/core/pull/7178)).
+- Remove `Config::ConfiguredSentboxFolder` and everything related.
+
+### Build system
+
+- Ignore configuration for the zed editor ([#7322](https://github.com/chatmail/core/pull/7322)).
+- nix: Fix build of deltachat-rpc-server-x86_64-darwin.
+- Update rand to 0.9.
+- Do not install `pdbpp` in the test environment for CFFI Python bindings.
+- Migrate from tokio-tar to astral-tokio-tar.
+- deps: Bump actions/setup-node from 5 to 6.
+- deps: Bump cachix/install-nix-action from 31.8.0 to 31.8.1.
+- Fix Rust 1.91.0 lint for derivable Default.
+
+### CI
+
+- Pin GitHub action `astral-sh/setup-uv`.
+- Set 7 days cooldown on Dependabot updates.
+- Update Rust to 1.91.0.
+
+### Documentation
+
+- Document Autocrypt-Gossip `_verified` attribute.
+
+### Features/Changes
+
+Metadata reduction:
+- Protect Autocrypt header.
+- Anonymize OpenPGP recipients (temorarily disabled due to interoperability problems, see <https://github.com/chatmail/core/issues/7384>).
+- Protect the `Date` header.
+
+Onboarding improvements:
+- Allow plain domain in `dcaccount:` scheme.
+- Do not resolve MX records during configuration.
+
+Preparation for multi-transport:
+- Move the messages only from INBOX and Spam folders.
+- deltachat-rpc-client: Support multiple transports in resetup_account().
+
+Various other changes:
+- Opt-in weekly sending of statistics ([#6851](https://github.com/chatmail/core/pull/6851))
+- Synchronize encrypted groups creation across devices ([#7001](https://github.com/chatmail/core/pull/7001)).
+- Do not send Autocrypt in MDNs.
+- Do not run SecureJoin if we are already in the group.
+- Show if proxy is enabled in connectivity view ([#7359](https://github.com/chatmail/core/pull/7359)).
+
+### Fixes
+
+- Don't ignore QR token timestamp from sync messages.
+- Do not allow sync item timestamps to be in the future.
+- jsonrpc: Fix `ChatListItem::is_self_in_group`.
+- Delete obsolete "configured*" keys from `config` table ([#7171](https://github.com/chatmail/core/pull/7171)).
+- Fix flaky tests::verified_chats::test_verified_chat_editor_reordering and receive_imf::receive_imf_tests::test_two_group_securejoins.
+- Stop using `leftgrps` table.
+- Stop notifying about messages in contact request chats.
+
+### Refactor
+
+- Remove invalid Gmail OAuth2 tokens.
+- Remove ProtectionStatus.
+- Rename chat::create_group_chat() to create_group().
+- Remove error stock strings that are rarely used these days ([#7327](https://github.com/chatmail/core/pull/7327)).
+- Jsonrpc rename change casing in names of jsonrpc structs/enums to comply with rust naming conventions. ([#7324](https://github.com/chatmail/core/pull/7324)).
+- Stop using deprecated Account.configure().
+- add_transport_from_qr: Do not set deprecated config values.
+- sql: Change second query_map function from FnMut to FnOnce.
+- sql: Add query_map_vec().
+- sql: Add query_map_collect().
+- Use rand::fill() instead of rand::rng().fill().
+- Use SampleString.
+- Remove unused call to get_credentials().
+
+### Tests
+
+- rpc-client: VCard color is the same as the contact color ([#7294](https://github.com/chatmail/core/pull/7294)).
+- Add unique offsets to ids generated by `TestContext` to increase test correctness ([#7297](https://github.com/chatmail/core/pull/7297)).
+
 ## [2.22.0] - 2025-10-17
 
 ### Fixes
@@ -6968,3 +7056,4 @@ https://github.com/chatmail/core/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aclosed
 [2.20.0]: https://github.com/chatmail/core/compare/v2.19.0..v2.20.0
 [2.21.0]: https://github.com/chatmail/core/compare/v2.20.0..v2.21.0
 [2.22.0]: https://github.com/chatmail/core/compare/v2.21.0..v2.22.0
+[2.23.0]: https://github.com/chatmail/core/compare/v2.22.0..v2.23.0
diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 47687a5c0..1081a5536 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1304,7 +1304,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "deltachat"
-version = "2.22.0"
+version = "2.23.0"
 dependencies = [
  "anyhow",
  "astral-tokio-tar",
@@ -1413,7 +1413,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "deltachat-jsonrpc"
-version = "2.22.0"
+version = "2.23.0"
 dependencies = [
  "anyhow",
  "async-channel 2.5.0",
@@ -1435,7 +1435,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "deltachat-repl"
-version = "2.22.0"
+version = "2.23.0"
 dependencies = [
  "anyhow",
  "deltachat",
@@ -1451,7 +1451,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "deltachat-rpc-server"
-version = "2.22.0"
+version = "2.23.0"
 dependencies = [
  "anyhow",
  "deltachat",
@@ -1480,7 +1480,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "deltachat_ffi"
-version = "2.22.0"
+version = "2.23.0"
 dependencies = [
  "anyhow",
  "deltachat",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 3e0648d3f..d656d216d 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "deltachat"
-version = "2.22.0"
+version = "2.23.0"
 edition = "2024"
 license = "MPL-2.0"
 rust-version = "1.85"
diff --git a/deltachat-ffi/Cargo.toml b/deltachat-ffi/Cargo.toml
index 67f2b4f87..8b80b4fd5 100644
--- a/deltachat-ffi/Cargo.toml
+++ b/deltachat-ffi/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "deltachat_ffi"
-version = "2.22.0"
+version = "2.23.0"
 description = "Deltachat FFI"
 edition = "2018"
 readme = "README.md"
diff --git a/deltachat-jsonrpc/Cargo.toml b/deltachat-jsonrpc/Cargo.toml
index 7e3956e59..02f648bec 100644
--- a/deltachat-jsonrpc/Cargo.toml
+++ b/deltachat-jsonrpc/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "deltachat-jsonrpc"
-version = "2.22.0"
+version = "2.23.0"
 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 70648e4e3..5b734923f 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": "2.22.0"
+  "version": "2.23.0"
 }
diff --git a/deltachat-repl/Cargo.toml b/deltachat-repl/Cargo.toml
index 60d0a9669..17a1e4318 100644
--- a/deltachat-repl/Cargo.toml
+++ b/deltachat-repl/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "deltachat-repl"
-version = "2.22.0"
+version = "2.23.0"
 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 a48210b1d..4852afe5f 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 = "2.22.0"
+version = "2.23.0"
 description = "Python client for Delta Chat core JSON-RPC interface"
 classifiers = [
     "Development Status :: 5 - Production/Stable",
diff --git a/deltachat-rpc-server/Cargo.toml b/deltachat-rpc-server/Cargo.toml
index 9e74f072c..528a7a59e 100644
--- a/deltachat-rpc-server/Cargo.toml
+++ b/deltachat-rpc-server/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "deltachat-rpc-server"
-version = "2.22.0"
+version = "2.23.0"
 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 7e321f1f8..660f9133b 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": "2.22.0"
+  "version": "2.23.0"
 }
diff --git a/python/pyproject.toml b/python/pyproject.toml
index a2b3ea8a6..682f6e097 100644
--- a/python/pyproject.toml
+++ b/python/pyproject.toml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
 
 [project]
 name = "deltachat"
-version = "2.22.0"
+version = "2.23.0"
 description = "Python bindings for the Delta Chat Core library using CFFI against the Rust-implemented libdeltachat"
 readme = "README.rst"
 requires-python = ">=3.8"
diff --git a/release-date.in b/release-date.in
index 2fd82012f..7062185bd 100644
--- a/release-date.in
+++ b/release-date.in
@@ -1 +1 @@
-2025-10-17
\ No newline at end of file
+2025-11-01
\ No newline at end of file