diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md
index a2c8232be1d7c1fd0e2414151112885c1f6cc618..d4cc179489d510486fbb7075e4b395d3aa43f168 100644
--- a/CHANGES.md
+++ b/CHANGES.md
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
-Synapse 1.19.0rc1 (2020-08-13)
-==============================
+Synapse 1.19.0 (2020-08-17)
+===========================
+
+No significant changes since 1.19.0rc1.
 
 Removal warning
 ---------------
@@ -7,6 +9,9 @@ Removal warning
 As outlined in the [previous release](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/releases/tag/v1.18.0), we are no longer publishing Docker images with the `-py3` tag suffix. On top of that, we have also removed the `latest-py3` tag. Please see [the announcement in the upgrade notes for 1.18.0](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/blob/develop/UPGRADE.rst#upgrading-to-v1180).
 
 
+Synapse 1.19.0rc1 (2020-08-13)
+==============================
+
 Features
 --------
 
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index a0af2b78a890e1fc019f6081f066c9746c1aa92e..bdaf59e9b948efd67fdd5f007d1552c02c8a6905 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
-matrix-synapse-py3 (1.xx.0) stable; urgency=medium
+matrix-synapse-py3 (1.19.0) stable; urgency=medium
 
   [ Synapse Packaging team ]
-  * New synapse release 1.xx.0.
+  * New synapse release 1.19.0.
 
   [ Aaron Raimist ]
   * Fix outdated documentation for SYNAPSE_CACHE_FACTOR
 
- -- Synapse Packaging team <packages@matrix.org>  XXXXX
+ -- Synapse Packaging team <packages@matrix.org>  Mon, 17 Aug 2020 14:06:42 +0100
 
 matrix-synapse-py3 (1.18.0) stable; urgency=medium
 
diff --git a/synapse/__init__.py b/synapse/__init__.py
index 832a8e2014ebe2e9248426a27be6cbe66a242182..f493cbd7d1d977e64b95ba576daca12e3feb6673 100644
--- a/synapse/__init__.py
+++ b/synapse/__init__.py
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ try:
 except ImportError:
     pass
 
-__version__ = "1.19.0rc1"
+__version__ = "1.19.0"
 
 if bool(os.environ.get("SYNAPSE_TEST_PATCH_LOG_CONTEXTS", False)):
     # We import here so that we don't have to install a bunch of deps when