diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 97a3a47b..4c3b6c4f 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
-ostree (2016.11-2) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
+ostree (2016.12-1) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
 
   * Force LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 during build, so that builds in non-English
     locales can pass their build-time tests
+  * New upstream release
 
  -- Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>  Sat, 08 Oct 2016 15:37:36 +0100