diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 0289ca9ee..d4a394eb9 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #! /bin/sh
 # Guess values for system-dependent variables and create Makefiles.
-# Generated by GNU Autoconf 2.71 for unbound 1.19.4.
+# Generated by GNU Autoconf 2.71 for unbound 1.20.0.
 #
 # Report bugs to <unbound-bugs@nlnetlabs.nl or https://github.com/NLnetLabs/unbound/issues>.
 #
@@ -622,8 +622,8 @@ MAKEFLAGS=
 # Identity of this package.
 PACKAGE_NAME='unbound'
 PACKAGE_TARNAME='unbound'
-PACKAGE_VERSION='1.19.4'
-PACKAGE_STRING='unbound 1.19.4'
+PACKAGE_VERSION='1.20.0'
+PACKAGE_STRING='unbound 1.20.0'
 PACKAGE_BUGREPORT='unbound-bugs@nlnetlabs.nl or https://github.com/NLnetLabs/unbound/issues'
 PACKAGE_URL=''
 
@@ -1508,7 +1508,7 @@ if test "$ac_init_help" = "long"; then
   # Omit some internal or obsolete options to make the list less imposing.
   # This message is too long to be a string in the A/UX 3.1 sh.
   cat <<_ACEOF
-\`configure' configures unbound 1.19.4 to adapt to many kinds of systems.
+\`configure' configures unbound 1.20.0 to adapt to many kinds of systems.
 
 Usage: $0 [OPTION]... [VAR=VALUE]...
 
@@ -1574,7 +1574,7 @@ fi
 
 if test -n "$ac_init_help"; then
   case $ac_init_help in
-     short | recursive ) echo "Configuration of unbound 1.19.4:";;
+     short | recursive ) echo "Configuration of unbound 1.20.0:";;
    esac
   cat <<\_ACEOF
 
@@ -1821,7 +1821,7 @@ fi
 test -n "$ac_init_help" && exit $ac_status
 if $ac_init_version; then
   cat <<\_ACEOF
-unbound configure 1.19.4
+unbound configure 1.20.0
 generated by GNU Autoconf 2.71
 
 Copyright (C) 2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
@@ -2478,7 +2478,7 @@ cat >config.log <<_ACEOF
 This file contains any messages produced by compilers while
 running configure, to aid debugging if configure makes a mistake.
 
-It was created by unbound $as_me 1.19.4, which was
+It was created by unbound $as_me 1.20.0, which was
 generated by GNU Autoconf 2.71.  Invocation command line was
 
   $ $0$ac_configure_args_raw
@@ -3240,9 +3240,9 @@ ac_compiler_gnu=$ac_cv_c_compiler_gnu
 
 UNBOUND_VERSION_MAJOR=1
 
-UNBOUND_VERSION_MINOR=19
+UNBOUND_VERSION_MINOR=20
 
-UNBOUND_VERSION_MICRO=4
+UNBOUND_VERSION_MICRO=0
 
 
 LIBUNBOUND_CURRENT=9
@@ -3340,7 +3340,7 @@ LIBUNBOUND_AGE=1
 # 1.19.1 had 9:24:1
 # 1.19.2 had 9:25:1
 # 1.19.3 had 9:26:1
-# 1.19.4 had 9:27:1
+# 1.20.0 had 9:27:1
 
 #   Current  -- the number of the binary API that we're implementing
 #   Revision -- which iteration of the implementation of the binary
@@ -24466,7 +24466,7 @@ printf "%s\n" "#define MAXSYSLOGMSGLEN 10240" >>confdefs.h
 
 
 
-version=1.19.4
+version=1.20.0
 
 date=`date +'%b %e, %Y'`
 
@@ -24978,7 +24978,7 @@ cat >>$CONFIG_STATUS <<\_ACEOF || ac_write_fail=1
 # report actual input values of CONFIG_FILES etc. instead of their
 # values after options handling.
 ac_log="
-This file was extended by unbound $as_me 1.19.4, which was
+This file was extended by unbound $as_me 1.20.0, which was
 generated by GNU Autoconf 2.71.  Invocation command line was
 
   CONFIG_FILES    = $CONFIG_FILES
@@ -25046,7 +25046,7 @@ ac_cs_config_escaped=`printf "%s\n" "$ac_cs_config" | sed "s/^ //; s/'/'\\\\\\\\
 cat >>$CONFIG_STATUS <<_ACEOF || ac_write_fail=1
 ac_cs_config='$ac_cs_config_escaped'
 ac_cs_version="\\
-unbound config.status 1.19.4
+unbound config.status 1.20.0
 configured by $0, generated by GNU Autoconf 2.71,
   with options \\"\$ac_cs_config\\"
 
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 776357272..83c013ac4 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -10,8 +10,8 @@ sinclude(dnscrypt/dnscrypt.m4)
 
 # must be numbers. ac_defun because of later processing
 m4_define([VERSION_MAJOR],[1])
-m4_define([VERSION_MINOR],[19])
-m4_define([VERSION_MICRO],[4])
+m4_define([VERSION_MINOR],[20])
+m4_define([VERSION_MICRO],[0])
 AC_INIT([unbound],m4_defn([VERSION_MAJOR]).m4_defn([VERSION_MINOR]).m4_defn([VERSION_MICRO]),[unbound-bugs@nlnetlabs.nl or https://github.com/NLnetLabs/unbound/issues],[unbound])
 AC_SUBST(UNBOUND_VERSION_MAJOR, [VERSION_MAJOR])
 AC_SUBST(UNBOUND_VERSION_MINOR, [VERSION_MINOR])
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ LIBUNBOUND_AGE=1
 # 1.19.1 had 9:24:1
 # 1.19.2 had 9:25:1
 # 1.19.3 had 9:26:1
-# 1.19.4 had 9:27:1
+# 1.20.0 had 9:27:1
 
 #   Current  -- the number of the binary API that we're implementing
 #   Revision -- which iteration of the implementation of the binary
diff --git a/doc/Changelog b/doc/Changelog
index 24fbb42c7..8d2ce0cde 100644
--- a/doc/Changelog
+++ b/doc/Changelog
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 	- Fix for the DNSBomb vulnerability CVE-2024-33655. Thanks to Xiang Li
 	  from the Network and Information Security Lab of Tsinghua University
 	  for reporting it.
+	- Set version number to 1.20.0 for release.
 
 29 April 2024: Yorgos
 	- Cleanup unnecessary strdup calls for EDE strings.