diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md
index 45008995e5c3961e43dd9d9bfb1a9f4ed6a1383c..04a3e525e664b8b8dca957d5d2699ebed6ebedc0 100644
--- a/CHANGES.md
+++ b/CHANGES.md
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+Synapse 1.13.0 (2020-05-19)
+===========================
+
+Internal Changes
+----------------
+
+- Update the version of dh-virtualenv we use to build debs, and add focal to the list of target distributions. ([\#7526](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7526))
+
+
 Synapse 1.13.0rc3 (2020-05-18)
 ==============================
 
diff --git a/changelog.d/7526.misc b/changelog.d/7526.misc
deleted file mode 100644
index c739312c4c0a7c2e37c68c8b9ae8aac3dd5f36fe..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/changelog.d/7526.misc
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Update the version of dh-virtualenv we use to build debs, and add focal to the list of target distributions.
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 2db94ee6095e448d2673be823bdd4593f081815f..e7842d417416e187d3eb27ae56096301cc13d0e5 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,8 +1,12 @@
-matrix-synapse-py3 (1.12.3ubuntu1) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
+matrix-synapse-py3 (1.13.0) stable; urgency=medium
 
+  [ Patrick Cloke ]
   * Add information about .well-known files to Debian installation scripts.
 
- -- Patrick Cloke <patrickc@matrix.org>  Mon, 06 Apr 2020 10:10:38 -0400
+  [ Synapse Packaging team ]
+  * New synapse release 1.13.0.
+
+ -- Synapse Packaging team <packages@matrix.org>  Tue, 19 May 2020 09:16:56 -0400
 
 matrix-synapse-py3 (1.12.4) stable; urgency=medium
 
diff --git a/synapse/__init__.py b/synapse/__init__.py
index 6b26c5e87e5ca52fe8ef4e1ec5c0e79fbeccdf6f..0abf4911729da1c136b740be872cb43cd1ad259a 100644
--- a/synapse/__init__.py
+++ b/synapse/__init__.py
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ try:
 except ImportError:
     pass
 
-__version__ = "1.13.0rc3"
+__version__ = "1.13.0"
 
 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