diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
index 333e753..885b531 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -1,6 +1,55 @@
 ChangeLog :
 ===========
 
+2016/12/25 : 1.5.19
+    - BUG/MAJOR: fix listening IP address storage for frontends
+    - CLEANUP: connection: fix double negation on memcmp()
+    - BUG/MEDIUM: sticktables: segfault in some configuration error cases
+    - BUG/MINOR: http: add-header: header name copied twice
+    - BUG/MINOR: ssl: fix potential memory leak in ssl_sock_load_dh_params()
+    - BUG/MINOR: http: url32+src should use the big endian version of url32
+    - BUG/MINOR: http: url32+src should check cli_conn before using it
+    - DOC: http: add documentation for url32 and url32+src
+    - MINOR: systemd: Use variable for config and pidfile paths
+    - MINOR: systemd: Perform sanity check on config before reload
+    - BUG/MINOR: init: always ensure that global.rlimit_nofile matches actual limits
+    - BUG/MINOR: init: ensure that FD limit is raised to the max allowed
+    - Revert "BUG/MINOR: ssl: fix potential memory leak in ssl_sock_load_dh_params()"
+    - BUG/MEDIUM: stream-int: completely detach connection on connect error
+    - DOC: minor typo fixes to improve HTML parsing by haproxy-dconv
+    - BUG/MAJOR: compression: initialize avail_in/next_in even during flush
+    - BUG/MAJOR: stick-counters: possible crash when using sc_trackers with wrong table
+    - BUG/MAJOR: stream: properly mark the server address as unset on connect retry
+    - BUG/MINOR: payload: fix SSLv2 version parser
+    - MINOR: cli: allow the semi-colon to be escaped on the CLI
+    - BUG/MINOR: displayed PCRE version is running release
+    - MINOR: show Built with PCRE version
+    - MINOR: show Running on zlib version
+    - BUG/MINOR: ssl: Check malloc return code
+    - BUG/MINOR: ssl: prevent multiple entries for the same certificate
+    - BUG/MINOR: systemd: make the wrapper return a non-null status code on error
+    - BUILD/CLEANUP: systemd: avoid a warning due to mixed code and declaration
+    - BUG/MINOR: systemd: always restore signals before execve()
+    - BUG/MINOR: systemd: check return value of calloc()
+    - MINOR: systemd: report it when execve() fails
+    - BUG/MEDIUM: systemd: let the wrapper know that haproxy has completed or failed
+    - BUILD: poll: remove unused hap_fd_isset() which causes a warning with clang
+    - DOC: Fix typo in description of `-st` parameter in man page
+    - BUG/MEDIUM: peers: fix use after free in peer_session_create()
+    - BUG/MEDIUM: systemd-wrapper: return correct exit codes
+    - BUG/MINOR: stick-table: handle out-of-memory condition gracefully
+    - BUG/MEDIUM: connection: check the control layer before stopping polling
+    - BUG/MEDIUM: stick-table: fix regression caused by recent fix for out-of-memory
+    - BUG/MINOR: cli: properly decrement ref count on tables during failed dumps
+    - BUG/MINOR: cli: fix pointer size when reporting data/transport layer name
+    - BUG/MINOR: cli: dequeue from the proxy when changing a maxconn
+    - BUG/MEDIUM: proxy: return "none" and "unknown" for unknown LB algos
+    - BUG/MINOR: http: don't send an extra CRLF after a Set-Cookie in a redirect
+    - DOC: fix small typo in fe_id (backend instead of frontend)
+    - BUG/MEDIUM: ssl: properly reset the reused_sess during a forced handshake
+    - BUG/MINOR: backend: nbsrv() should return 0 if backend is disabled
+    - BUG/MINOR: systemd: potential zombie processes
+
 2016/05/10 : 1.5.18
     - DOC: Clarify IPv4 address / mask notation rules
     - CLEANUP: fix inconsistency between fd->iocb, proto->accept and accept()
diff --git a/README b/README
index 4674d54..52fc31a 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
                          ----------------------
                                version 1.5
                              willy tarreau
-                               2016/05/10
+                               2016/12/25
 
 
 1) How to build it
diff --git a/VERDATE b/VERDATE
index 97c7202..f54ea95 100644
--- a/VERDATE
+++ b/VERDATE
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 $Format:%ci$
-2016/05/10
+2016/12/25
diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index 83d4cf8..e7a15ce 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-1.5.18
+1.5.19
diff --git a/doc/configuration.txt b/doc/configuration.txt
index 28ec301..b246bde 100644
--- a/doc/configuration.txt
+++ b/doc/configuration.txt
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
                          ----------------------
                                version 1.5
                              willy tarreau
-                               2016/05/10
+                               2016/12/25
 
 
 This document covers the configuration language as implemented in the version
diff --git a/examples/haproxy.spec b/examples/haproxy.spec
index 936cc86..4dac27b 100644
--- a/examples/haproxy.spec
+++ b/examples/haproxy.spec
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Summary: HA-Proxy is a TCP/HTTP reverse proxy for high availability environments
 Name: haproxy
-Version: 1.5.18
+Version: 1.5.19
 Release: 1
 License: GPL
 Group: System Environment/Daemons
@@ -76,6 +76,9 @@
 %attr(0755,root,root) %config %{_sysconfdir}/rc.d/init.d/%{name}
 
 %changelog
+* Sun Dec 25 2016 Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
+- updated to 1.5.19
+
 * Tue May 10 2016 Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
 - updated to 1.5.18