diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index bf9ad5e..896bca7 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+# (2026-05-09) Version 1.19.0
+
+- (**Internal Improvement**) Update [matrix-sdk](https://crates.io/crates/matrix-sdk) from 0.16 to 0.17 and [mxlink](https://crates.io/crates/mxlink) to 1.14.0. matrix-sdk 0.17 dropped its `native-tls` feature and now uses [rustls](https://github.com/rustls/rustls) exclusively as its TLS backend.
+
+- (**Internal Improvement**) Bump the pinned Rust toolchain from 1.93.0 to 1.95.0 (in `rust-toolchain.toml` and the Docker build images).
+
+- (**Internal Improvement**) Dependency updates.
+
+
 # (2026-04-11) Version 1.18.0
 
 - (**Bugfix**) Fix the bot not sending a welcome message when joining a room on homeservers (like [Continuwuity](https://continuwuity.org/)) that place the join membership event in the sync response's `state` block rather than the `timeline` block, via [mxlink](https://crates.io/crates/mxlink) 1.13.1
diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 726f061..d008e52 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -315,7 +315,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "baibot"
-version = "1.18.0"
+version = "1.19.0"
 dependencies = [
  "anthropic",
  "anyhow",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 4d6ef85..d3b9bfd 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ license = "AGPL-3.0-or-later"
 readme = "README.md"
 keywords = ["matrix", "chat", "bot", "AI", "LLM"]
 include = ["/etc/assets/baibot-torso-768.png", "/src", "/README.md", "/CHANGELOG.md", "/LICENSE"]
-version = "1.18.0"
+version = "1.19.0"
 edition = "2024"
 
 [lib]