diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index 6633391..1cf0537 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-0.18.0
+0.19.0
diff --git a/frontend/src/lib/releaseNotes.ts b/frontend/src/lib/releaseNotes.ts
index b70ab1b..c06ca0a 100644
--- a/frontend/src/lib/releaseNotes.ts
+++ b/frontend/src/lib/releaseNotes.ts
@@ -14,6 +14,23 @@ export interface ReleaseEntry {
 }
 
 export const RELEASE_NOTES: ReleaseEntry[] = [
+  {
+    version: "0.19.0",
+    date: "2026-07-01",
+    summary: "Channel pages, much smarter search, and self-tidying YouTube search results.",
+    features: [
+      "Channel pages: open any channel's own page inside Siftlode — banner, stats (subscribers, videos, views, joined) and its uploads, with Videos and About tabs. Click a channel name anywhere to open it.",
+      "Explore channels you don't follow: opening an un-subscribed channel loads its recent uploads just for you — private until you subscribe. Channels you explore but don't keep tidy themselves away automatically after a while.",
+      "Smarter search: results are now relevance-ranked and match far more than the title — a video's tags, its description, and even the searches that first surfaced it all count, so you can find things by meaning instead of exact words. In your own feed (Mine), a Source filter separates your subscriptions from your search finds.",
+      "Temporary search results: live YouTube search results are clearly marked temporary — they clear themselves unless you watch or save one, with a “Clear now” button to do it at once. Pick how many to fetch (20/40/60/100), and videos you already have are sorted below fresh discoveries.",
+      "Block channels: hide a channel everywhere — from search, your feed and channel pages — and manage your blocked channels from the Channel manager.",
+      "The Channel manager gets a search box and clickable tag chips, and a floating “back to top” button appears on long pages.",
+    ],
+    fixes: [
+      "The Back button no longer does nothing the first time: after you closed the video player (or a dialog) with its ✕/Escape and opened another, the next Back press now closes it right away — everywhere in the app.",
+      "Reloading the page now keeps your YouTube search results on screen (they re-fetch for free) instead of dropping you back to the feed.",
+    ],
+  },
   {
     version: "0.18.0",
     date: "2026-06-29",