diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
index 1ebaeb24a..ec84318aa 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -2,8 +2,17 @@
 List of major changes and improvements between releases
 =======================================================
 
-Yosys 0.48 .. Yosys 0.49-dev
+Yosys 0.48 .. Yosys 0.49
 --------------------------
+ * Various
+    - "$scopeinfo" cells are now part of JSON export by default.
+    - Added option to specify hierarchical separator for "flatten".
+    - Improved "wreduce" to handle more cases of operator size reduction.
+    - Updated hashing interface, see docs/source/yosys_internals/hashing.rst
+      for breaking API changes.
+
+ * New commands and options
+    - Added "-noscopeinfo" option to "json" and "write_json" pass.
 
 Yosys 0.47 .. Yosys 0.48
 --------------------------
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index ec47685f2..a6b742526 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ ifeq ($(OS), Haiku)
 CXXFLAGS += -D_DEFAULT_SOURCE
 endif
 
-YOSYS_VER := 0.48+98
+YOSYS_VER := 0.49
 
 # Note: We arrange for .gitcommit to contain the (short) commit hash in
 # tarballs generated with git-archive(1) using .gitattributes. The git repo
@@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ endif
 OBJS = kernel/version_$(GIT_REV).o
 
 bumpversion:
-	sed -i "/^YOSYS_VER := / s/+[0-9][0-9]*$$/+`git log --oneline aaa5347.. | wc -l`/;" Makefile
+#	sed -i "/^YOSYS_VER := / s/+[0-9][0-9]*$$/+`git log --oneline aaa5347.. | wc -l`/;" Makefile
 
 ABCMKARGS = CC="$(CXX)" CXX="$(CXX)" ABC_USE_LIBSTDCXX=1 ABC_USE_NAMESPACE=abc VERBOSE=$(Q)
 
diff --git a/docs/source/conf.py b/docs/source/conf.py
index de0b9cf4d..a27b4dc64 100644
--- a/docs/source/conf.py
+++ b/docs/source/conf.py
@@ -5,8 +5,8 @@ import os
 
 project = 'YosysHQ Yosys'
 author = 'YosysHQ GmbH'
-copyright ='2024 YosysHQ GmbH'
-yosys_ver = "0.48"
+copyright ='2025 YosysHQ GmbH'
+yosys_ver = "0.49"
 
 # select HTML theme
 html_theme = 'furo-ys'