diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md
index b3fd1b872..fc6538787 100644
--- a/CHANGES.md
+++ b/CHANGES.md
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 General/project-related changes in the hledger project. 
 For package-specific changes, see the package changelogs.
 
-# ba59fed6
+# 1.19 2020-09-01
 
 - example scripts:
 
diff --git a/hledger-lib/CHANGES.md b/hledger-lib/CHANGES.md
index 447e9dc12..b6047c749 100644
--- a/hledger-lib/CHANGES.md
+++ b/hledger-lib/CHANGES.md
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Internal/api/developer-ish changes in the hledger-lib (and hledger) packages.
 For user-visible changes, see the hledger package changelog.
 
-# 818dea3e
+# 1.19 2020-09-01
 
 - Added a missing lower bound for aeson, making cabal installs more
   reliable. (#1268)
diff --git a/hledger-ui/CHANGES.md b/hledger-ui/CHANGES.md
index 08f031e5f..bee31e260 100644
--- a/hledger-ui/CHANGES.md
+++ b/hledger-ui/CHANGES.md
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 User-visible changes in hledger-ui.
 See also the hledger changelog.
 
-# 818dea3e
+# 1.19 2020-09-01
 
 - The --color/--colour=WHEN command line option, support for the
   NO_COLOR environment variable, and smarter autodetection of colour
diff --git a/hledger-web/CHANGES.md b/hledger-web/CHANGES.md
index a66c14a01..8cc37df43 100644
--- a/hledger-web/CHANGES.md
+++ b/hledger-web/CHANGES.md
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 User-visible changes in hledger-web.
 See also the hledger changelog.
 
-# 818dea3e
+# 1.19 2020-09-01
 
 - Queries containing a malformed regular expression (eg the single
   character `?`) now show a tidy error message instead "internal
diff --git a/hledger/CHANGES.md b/hledger/CHANGES.md
index 880c642dc..edcd7c7db 100644
--- a/hledger/CHANGES.md
+++ b/hledger/CHANGES.md
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 User-visible changes in the hledger command line tool and library.
 
 
-# 818dea3e
+# 1.19 2020-09-01
 
 ## general