diff --git a/RELEASE.md b/RELEASE.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 200872889..000000000
--- a/RELEASE.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
-Release type: minor
-
-* Improve default theme rendering on mobile and other small screen devices `(#2914) <https://github.com/getpelican/pelican/pull/2914>`_
-* Add support for hidden articles `(#2866) <https://github.com/getpelican/pelican/pull/2866>`_
-* Improve word count behavior when generating summary CJK & other locales `(#2864) <https://github.com/getpelican/pelican/pull/2864>`_
-* Add progress spinner during generation `(#2869) <https://github.com/getpelican/pelican/pull/2869>`_
-  and richer logging `(#2897) <https://github.com/getpelican/pelican/pull/2897>`_, both via `Rich <https://github.com/willmcgugan/rich>`_
-* Invoke tasks ``serve`` and ``livereload`` now auto-open a web browser pointing to the locally-served web site `(#2764) <https://github.com/getpelican/pelican/pull/2764>`_
-* Support some date format codes used by ISO dates `(#2902) <https://github.com/getpelican/pelican/pull/2902>`_
-* Document how to add a new writer `(#2901) <https://github.com/getpelican/pelican/pull/2901>`_
diff --git a/docs/changelog.rst b/docs/changelog.rst
index fc673d90e..b7418ca9c 100644
--- a/docs/changelog.rst
+++ b/docs/changelog.rst
@@ -1,6 +1,18 @@
 Release history
 ###############
 
+4.7.0 - 2021-10-01
+==================
+
+* Improve default theme rendering on mobile and other small screen devices `(#2914) <https://github.com/getpelican/pelican/pull/2914>`_
+* Add support for hidden articles `(#2866) <https://github.com/getpelican/pelican/pull/2866>`_
+* Improve word count behavior when generating summary CJK & other locales `(#2864) <https://github.com/getpelican/pelican/pull/2864>`_
+* Add progress spinner during generation `(#2869) <https://github.com/getpelican/pelican/pull/2869>`_
+  and richer logging `(#2897) <https://github.com/getpelican/pelican/pull/2897>`_, both via `Rich <https://github.com/willmcgugan/rich>`_
+* Invoke tasks ``serve`` and ``livereload`` now auto-open a web browser pointing to the locally-served web site `(#2764) <https://github.com/getpelican/pelican/pull/2764>`_
+* Support some date format codes used by ISO dates `(#2902) <https://github.com/getpelican/pelican/pull/2902>`_
+* Document how to add a new writer `(#2901) <https://github.com/getpelican/pelican/pull/2901>`_
+
 4.6.0 - 2021-03-23
 ==================
 
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 99b1d5d4d..42bd9a149 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [tool.poetry]
 name = "pelican"
-version = "4.6.0"
+version = "4.7.0"
 description = "Static site generator supporting Markdown and reStructuredText"
 authors = ["Justin Mayer <entrop@gmail.com>"]
 license = "AGPLv3"
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 5ffd0fdfc..c59c2daa5 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 from setuptools import find_packages, setup
 
 
-version = "4.6.0"
+version = "4.7.0"
 
 requires = ['feedgenerator >= 1.9', 'jinja2 >= 2.7', 'pygments',
             'docutils>=0.15', 'pytz >= 0a', 'blinker', 'unidecode',