diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md
index d82b30c66c2d7e813473c7e1c92012a2a8655538..f20566e71e79d6fd1d5648bfa9b66bd71da42574 100644
--- a/CHANGES.md
+++ b/CHANGES.md
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+Synapse 1.19.3 (2020-09-18)
+===========================
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- Partially mitigate bug where newly joined servers couldn't get past events in a room when there is a malformed event. ([\#8350](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8350))
+
+
 Synapse 1.19.2 (2020-09-16)
 ===========================
 
diff --git a/changelog.d/8350.bugfix b/changelog.d/8350.bugfix
deleted file mode 100644
index 0e493c0282149f5755c8ea1915786170105eebd6..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/changelog.d/8350.bugfix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Partially mitigate bug where newly joined servers couldn't get past events in a room when there is a malformed event.
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 6d60db6084fb913f8faf6efb042e443d95c6721f..82125220aa5a9f7d40b81c0c36950ad657be5ea9 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+matrix-synapse-py3 (1.19.3) stable; urgency=medium
+
+  * New synapse release 1.19.3.
+
+ -- Synapse Packaging team <packages@matrix.org>  Fri, 18 Sep 2020 14:59:30 +0100
+
 matrix-synapse-py3 (1.19.2) stable; urgency=medium
 
   * New synapse release 1.19.2.
diff --git a/synapse/__init__.py b/synapse/__init__.py
index 078914695af4a1e82a9ba5368c3854ddc8d54880..56705707e05e8cab0dbc20d61a1d7aca0878cb1c 100644
--- a/synapse/__init__.py
+++ b/synapse/__init__.py
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ try:
 except ImportError:
     pass
 
-__version__ = "1.19.2"
+__version__ = "1.19.3"
 
 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