diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index fd9620c..7d07a19 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-0.32.1
+0.33.0
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/frontend/src/lib/releaseNotes.ts b/frontend/src/lib/releaseNotes.ts
index 90bbf39..109012a 100644
--- a/frontend/src/lib/releaseNotes.ts
+++ b/frontend/src/lib/releaseNotes.ts
@@ -14,6 +14,21 @@ export interface ReleaseEntry {
 }
 
 export const RELEASE_NOTES: ReleaseEntry[] = [
+  {
+    version: "0.33.0",
+    date: "2026-07-09",
+    summary: "Watch your Plex library right here — a full player — plus smarter Plex search.",
+    features: [
+      "Plex player: play any film or episode straight from Siftlode. It resumes where you left off, remembers your volume, and — when the file's format needs it — streams through an on-the-fly conversion so it just plays.",
+      "Player controls: scrub the timeline by clicking or dragging it, hover for a timestamp, switch audio tracks and subtitles, and see the expected finish time in brackets next to the time remaining. A live clock sits in the top corner.",
+      "Skip Intro / Skip Credits buttons appear on marked titles, with an optional auto-skip countdown (which pauses when you pause); credits can auto-advance to the next episode.",
+      "Personalise the player from the gear menu — subtitle/audio sync offsets, seek step, subtitle style (size, position, colour, background, shadow) and the corner clock. The whole player is 25% larger for lean-back viewing, and Back / Esc (keyboard or mouse) step out of an open menu before leaving the player.",
+    ],
+    fixes: [
+      "Plex search now has its own box: it no longer leaks into — or gets left behind by — the feed search, and it clears on reload instead of greeting you with a stale query.",
+      'A Plex search that comes up empty while a filter is active now says so and offers a one-click "Clear filters", instead of a bare "No matches".',
+    ],
+  },
   {
     version: "0.32.1",
     date: "2026-07-07",