diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 50fba4c2..2dbdc96d 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,4 +1,23 @@
 
+1.23.0 / 2019-08-15
+===================
+
+New functionality
+-----------------
+  * Add account API support (user and cloud management) (#176)
+  * Add structured metadata APIs and entities (#171)
+  * Add duration to conditions in video (#172)
+  * Add support for `live` parameter to Upload Preset (#173)
+  * Add support for folder deletion (#170)
+  * Add support for forcing a version when generating URLs.
+  * Add support for custom pre-functions in transformation (wasm/remote). (#162)
+
+Other changes
+-------------
+  * Fix base64 url validation (accept parameters). (#165)
+  * Fix build script and travis.yml to support more java versions.
+  * Remove test for similarity search (#163)
+
 1.22.1 / 2019-02-13
 ===================
 
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 347e447c..8bbcf71a 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -34,11 +34,11 @@ The cloudinary_java library is available in [Maven Central](https://repo1.maven.
 <dependency>
     <groupId>com.cloudinary</groupId>
     <artifactId>cloudinary-http44</artifactId>
-    <version>1.22.1</version>
+    <version>1.23.0</version>
 </dependency>
 ```
 
-Alternatively, download cloudinary_java from [here](https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/com/cloudinary/cloudinary-core/1.22.1/cloudinary-core-1.22.1.jar) and [here](https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/com/cloudinary/cloudinary-http44/1.22.1/cloudinary-http44-1.22.1.jar)
+Alternatively, download cloudinary_java from [here](https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/com/cloudinary/cloudinary-core/1.23.0/cloudinary-core-1.23.0.jar) and [here](https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/com/cloudinary/cloudinary-http44/1.23.0/cloudinary-http44-1.23.0.jar)
 and see [build.gradle](https://github.com/cloudinary/cloudinary_java/blob/master/cloudinary-http44/build.gradle) for library dependencies.
 
 ## Try it right away
diff --git a/cloudinary-core/src/main/java/com/cloudinary/Cloudinary.java b/cloudinary-core/src/main/java/com/cloudinary/Cloudinary.java
index c128d4ee..8b22f7fc 100644
--- a/cloudinary-core/src/main/java/com/cloudinary/Cloudinary.java
+++ b/cloudinary-core/src/main/java/com/cloudinary/Cloudinary.java
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ public class Cloudinary {
     public final static String AKAMAI_SHARED_CDN = "res.cloudinary.com";
     public final static String SHARED_CDN = AKAMAI_SHARED_CDN;
 
-    public final static String VERSION = "1.22.1";
+    public final static String VERSION = "1.23.0";
     public final static String USER_AGENT = "CloudinaryJava/" + VERSION + " (Java " + System.getProperty("java.version") + ")";
 
     public final Configuration config;
diff --git a/gradle.properties b/gradle.properties
index a2bab305..afd267a6 100644
--- a/gradle.properties
+++ b/gradle.properties
@@ -13,4 +13,4 @@ developerEmail=info@cloudinary.com
 
 # These two properties must use these exact names to be compatible with 'gradle install' plugin.
 group=com.cloudinary
-version=1.22.1
+version=1.23.0