diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
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@@ -0,0 +1,141 @@
+version <unreleased>
+
+New Extractors
+- roosterteeth (#9864)
+
+Fixed/improved extractors
+- miomio (#9605)
+- vuclip
+
+version 2016.07.09.2
+
+Fixed/improved extractors
+- vimeo (#1638)
+- facebook (#10048)
+- lynda (#10047)
+- animeondemand
+
+Fixed/improved features
+- Embedding subtitles no longer throws an error with problematic inputs (#9063)
+
+version 2016.07.09.1
+
+Fixed/improved extractors
+- youtube
+- ard
+- srmediatek (#9373)
+
+version 2016.07.09
+
+New extractors
+- Flipagram (#9898)
+
+Fixed/improved extractors
+- telecinco
+- toutv
+- radiocanada
+- tweakers (#9516)
+- lynda
+- nick (#7542)
+- polskieradio (#10028)
+- le
+- facebook (#9851)
+- mgtv
+- animeondemand (#10031)
+
+Fixed/improved features
+- `--postprocessor-args` and `--downloader-args` now accepts non-ASCII inputs
+  on non-Windows systems
+
+version 2016.07.07
+
+New extractors
+- kamcord (#10001)
+
+Fixed/improved extractors
+- spiegel (#10018)
+- metacafe (#8539, #3253)
+- onet (#9950)
+- francetv (#9955)
+- brightcove (#9965)
+- daum (#9972)
+
+version 2016.07.06
+
+Fixed/improved extractors
+- youtube (#10007, #10009)
+- xuite
+- stitcher
+- spiegel
+- slideshare
+- sandia
+- rtvnh
+- prosiebensat1
+- onionstudios
+
+version 2016.07.05
+
+Fixed/improved extractors
+- brightcove
+- yahoo (#9995)
+- pornhub (#9997)
+- iqiyi
+- kaltura (#5557)
+- la7
+- Changed features
+- Rename --cn-verfication-proxy to --geo-verification-proxy
+- Miscellaneous
+- Add script for displaying downloads statistics
+
+version 2016.07.03.1
+
+Fixed/improved extractors
+- theplatform
+- aenetworks
+- nationalgeographic
+- hrti (#9482)
+- facebook (#5701)
+- buzzfeed (#5701)
+- rai (#8617, #9157, #9232, #8552, #8551)
+- nationalgeographic (#9991)
+- iqiyi
+- Miscellaneous
+- Add coding convention guide to README.md
+- Add PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md
+
+version 2016.07.03
+
+New extractors
+- hrti (#9482)
+
+Fixed/improved extractors
+- vk (#9981)
+- facebook (#9938)
+- xtube (#9953, #9961)
+
+version 2016.07.02
+
+New extractors
+- fusion (#9958)
+
+Fixed/improved extractors
+- twitch (#9975)
+- vine (#9970)
+- periscope (#9967)
+- pornhub (#8696)
+
+version 2016.07.01
+
+New extractors
+- 9c9media
+- ctvnews (#2156)
+- ctv (#4077)
+
+Fixed/Improved extractors
+- rds
+- meta (#8789)
+- pornhub (#9964)
+- sixplay (#2183)
+
+New features
+- Accept quoted strings across multiple lines (#9940)
diff --git a/devscripts/release.sh b/devscripts/release.sh
index f8d466ba8..ca6ae1b49 100755
--- a/devscripts/release.sh
+++ b/devscripts/release.sh
@@ -71,9 +71,12 @@ fi
 /bin/echo -e "\n### Changing version in version.py..."
 sed -i "s/__version__ = '.*'/__version__ = '$version'/" youtube_dl/version.py
 
+/bin/echo -e "\n### Changing version in ChangeLog..."
+sed -i "s/<unreleased>/$version/" ChangeLog
+
 /bin/echo -e "\n### Committing documentation, templates and youtube_dl/version.py..."
 make README.md CONTRIBUTING.md .github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE.md supportedsites
-git add README.md CONTRIBUTING.md .github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE.md docs/supportedsites.md youtube_dl/version.py
+git add README.md CONTRIBUTING.md .github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE.md docs/supportedsites.md youtube_dl/version.py ChangeLog
 git commit $gpg_sign_commits -m "release $version"
 
 /bin/echo -e "\n### Now tagging, signing and pushing..."