diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md
index 75871979c2..15d7d0aeea 100644
--- a/CHANGES.md
+++ b/CHANGES.md
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+Synapse 1.23.0 (2020-11-18)
+===========================
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- Fix a dependency versioning bug in the Dockerfile that prevented Synapse from starting. ([\#8767](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8767))
+
+
 Synapse 1.23.0rc1 (2020-11-13)
 ==============================
 
diff --git a/changelog.d/8767.bugfix b/changelog.d/8767.bugfix
deleted file mode 100644
index 9fe5107a5e..0000000000
--- a/changelog.d/8767.bugfix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Fix a dependency versioning bug in the Dockerfile that prevented Synapse from starting.
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index ae8948650f..4ea4feddd5 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+matrix-synapse-py3 (1.23.0) stable; urgency=medium
+
+  * New synapse release 1.23.0.
+
+ -- Synapse Packaging team <packages@matrix.org>  Wed, 18 Nov 2020 11:41:28 +0000
+
 matrix-synapse-py3 (1.22.1) stable; urgency=medium
 
   * New synapse release 1.22.1.
diff --git a/synapse/__init__.py b/synapse/__init__.py
index 537f2239e5..65c1f5aa3f 100644
--- a/synapse/__init__.py
+++ b/synapse/__init__.py
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ try:
 except ImportError:
     pass
 
-__version__ = "1.23.0rc1"
+__version__ = "1.23.0"
 
 if bool(os.environ.get("SYNAPSE_TEST_PATCH_LOG_CONTEXTS", False)):
     # We import here so that we don't have to install a bunch of deps when