diff --git a/appinfo/info.xml b/appinfo/info.xml
index fb71a5b6097..19fe4716e89 100644
--- a/appinfo/info.xml
+++ b/appinfo/info.xml
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
 * 🌉 **Sync with other chat solutions** With [Matterbridge](https://github.com/42wim/matterbridge/) being integrated in Talk, you can easily sync a lot of other chat solutions to Nextcloud Talk and vice-versa.
 ]]></description>
 
-	<version>25.0.0-alpha.1</version>
+	<version>25.0.0-rc.1</version>
 	<licence>AGPL-3.0-or-later</licence>
 
 	<author>Christian Lorang</author>
diff --git a/docs/changelogs/changelog-25.md b/docs/changelogs/changelog-25.md
index 0b5e4797a01..485568590ed 100644
--- a/docs/changelogs/changelog-25.md
+++ b/docs/changelogs/changelog-25.md
@@ -5,6 +5,30 @@
 # Changelog
 All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 
+## 25.0.0-rc.1 – 2026-08-26
+### Changed
+- Update dependencies
+- Update translations
+
+### Fixed
+- fix(call): Improve speaker view layout
+  [#19035](https://github.com/nextcloud/spreed/pull/19035)
+  [#19003](https://github.com/nextcloud/spreed/pull/19003)
+- fix(chat): Make scroll to bottom work for very long messages
+  [#19018](https://github.com/nextcloud/spreed/pull/19018)
+- fix(chat): Don't break message grouping on edited messages
+  [#19006](https://github.com/nextcloud/spreed/pull/19006)
+- fix(conversations): Hide unread counter from tag headers
+  [#19104](https://github.com/nextcloud/spreed/pull/19104)
+- fix(conversations): Correctly scroll to unread mentions in conversation list
+  [#19102 ](https://github.com/nextcloud/spreed/pull/19102)
+- fix(unified-search): Correctly register app as search result
+  [#19085](https://github.com/nextcloud/spreed/pull/19085)
+- fix(upload): Combine temporary messages during upload
+  [#19106](https://github.com/nextcloud/spreed/pull/19106)
+- fix(upload): Show file size on upload
+  [#19045](https://github.com/nextcloud/spreed/pull/19045)
+
 ## 25.0.0-alpha.1 – 2026-08-13
 ### Added
 - Classified conversations, announcements and channels
diff --git a/package-lock.json b/package-lock.json
index bf155780663..4ec6bb8ec8f 100644
--- a/package-lock.json
+++ b/package-lock.json
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 {
   "name": "talk",
-  "version": "25.0.0-alpha.1",
+  "version": "25.0.0-rc.1",
   "lockfileVersion": 2,
   "requires": true,
   "packages": {
     "": {
       "name": "talk",
-      "version": "25.0.0-alpha.1",
+      "version": "25.0.0-rc.1",
       "license": "agpl",
       "dependencies": {
         "@matrix-org/olm": "^3.2.15",
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 4cbbf97a935..a75dde873a7 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "talk",
-  "version": "25.0.0-alpha.1",
+  "version": "25.0.0-rc.1",
   "private": true,
   "description": "",
   "license": "agpl",