diff --git a/packaging/debian/debian/changelog b/packaging/debian/debian/changelog
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@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+recoll (1.24.0-1~ppaPPAVERS~SERIES1) SERIES; urgency=low
+                
+  * New release 1.24. Mostly to accommodate new Xapian 1.4 index format changes
+    
+ -- Jean-Francois Dockes <jf@dockes.org>  Tue, 10 Apr 2018 13:37:00 +0100
+
 recoll (1.23.7-1~ppaPPAVERS~SERIES1) SERIES; urgency=low
                 
   * Fix ennoying bug in dir filtering with upper-case names