diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
index d1cdbea24..5b88f338e 100644
--- a/AUTHORS
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -47,6 +47,13 @@ Babel is written and maintained by the Babel team and various contributors:
 - Arturas Moskvinas
 - Leonardo Pistone
 - Hyunjun Kim
+- Eric L
+- Jonah Lawrence
+- Przemyslaw Wegrzyn
+- Lukas Kahwe Smith
+- Lukas Juhrich
+- Nikita Sobolev
+- Raphael Nestler
 - Frank Harrison
 - Nehal J Wani
 - Mohamed Morsy
diff --git a/CHANGES.rst b/CHANGES.rst
index d3b960811..a1a98da56 100644
--- a/CHANGES.rst
+++ b/CHANGES.rst
@@ -1,6 +1,48 @@
 Babel Changelog
 ===============
 
+Version 2.11.0
+--------------
+
+Upcoming deprecation
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+* This version, Babel 2.11, is the last version of Babel to support Python 3.6.
+  Babel 2.12 will require Python 3.7 or newer.
+
+Improvements
+~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+* Support for hex escapes in JavaScript string literals :gh:`#877` - Przemyslaw Wegrzyn
+* Add support for formatting decimals in compact form :gh:`#909` - Jonah Lawrence
+* Adapt parse_date to handle ISO dates in ASCII format :gh:`#842` - Eric L.
+* Use `ast` instead of `eval` for Python string extraction :gh:`#915` - Aarni Koskela
+  * This also enables extraction from static f-strings.
+    F-strings with expressions are silently ignored (but won't raise an error as they used to).
+
+Infrastructure
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+* Tests: Use regular asserts and ``pytest.raises()`` :gh:`#875` – Aarni Koskela
+* Wheels are now built in GitHub Actions :gh:`#888` – Aarni Koskela
+* Small improvements to the CLDR downloader script :gh:`#894` – Aarni Koskela
+* Remove antiquated `__nonzero__` methods :gh:`#896` - Nikita Sobolev
+* Remove superfluous `__unicode__` declarations :gh:`#905` - Lukas Juhrich
+* Mark package compatible with Python 3.11 :gh:`#913` - Aarni Koskela
+* Quiesce pytest warnings :gh:`#916` - Aarni Koskela
+
+Bugfixes
+~~~~~~~~
+
+* Use email.Message for pofile header parsing instead of the deprecated ``cgi.parse_header`` function. :gh:`#876` – Aarni Koskela
+* Remove determining time zone via systemsetup on macOS :gh:`#914` - Aarni Koskela
+
+Documentation
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+* Update Python versions in documentation :gh:`#898` - Raphael Nestler
+* Align BSD-3 license with OSI template :gh:`#912` - Lukas Kahwe Smith
+
 Version 2.10.3
 --------------
 
diff --git a/babel/__init__.py b/babel/__init__.py
index 081178a5c..df190033c 100644
--- a/babel/__init__.py
+++ b/babel/__init__.py
@@ -20,4 +20,4 @@
     negotiate_locale, parse_locale, get_locale_identifier
 
 
-__version__ = '2.10.3'
+__version__ = '2.11.0'
diff --git a/docs/conf.py b/docs/conf.py
index e644dcc89..24c6ce217 100644
--- a/docs/conf.py
+++ b/docs/conf.py
@@ -50,9 +50,9 @@
 # built documents.
 #
 # The short X.Y version.
-version = '2.10'
+version = '2.11'
 # The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags.
-release = '2.10.2'
+release = '2.11.0'
 
 # The language for content autogenerated by Sphinx. Refer to documentation
 # for a list of supported languages.