diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 39be079c45d..d3fada97510 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -4,15 +4,33 @@
 `psql` with the `-X` flag to prevent any `.psqlrc` commands from
 accidentally triggering the load of a previous DB version.**
 
-## Unreleased
+## 1.7.3 (2020-07-27)
+
+This maintenance release contains bugfixes since the 1.7.2 release. We deem it high
+priority for upgrading.
+
+In particular the fixes contained in this maintenance release address bugs in compression,
+drop_chunks and the background worker scheduler.
 
 **Bugfixes**
+* #2059 Improve infering start and stop arguments from gapfill query
+* #2067 Support moving compressed chunks
+* #2068 Apply SET TABLESPACE for compressed chunks
 * #2090 Fix index creation with IF NOT EXISTS for existing indexes
 * #2092 Fix delete on tables involving hypertables with compression
+* #2116 Propagate privileges from hypertables to chunks
+* #2150 Lock dimension slice tuple when scanning
+* #2164 Fix telemetry installed_time format
+* #2184 Fix background worker scheduler memory consumption
 * #2222 Fix `negative bitmapset member not allowed` in decompression
+* #2256 Fix segfault in chunk_append with space partitioning
 
 **Thanks**
+* @akamensky for reporting an issue with drop_chunks and ChunkAppend with space partitioning
+* @dewetburger430 for reporting an issue with setting tablespace for compressed chunks
+* @nexces for reporting an issue with ChunkAppend on space-partitioned hypertables
 * @PichetGoulu for reporting an issue with index creation and IF NOT EXISTS
+* @sezaru for reporting an issue with background worker scheduler memory consumption
 
 ## 1.7.2 (2020-07-07)
 
diff --git a/sql/CMakeLists.txt b/sql/CMakeLists.txt
index bf30f7fa679..d1bc6ff9bb1 100644
--- a/sql/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/sql/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -93,6 +93,7 @@ set(MOD_FILES
   updates/1.6.1--1.7.0.sql
   updates/1.7.0--1.7.1.sql
   updates/1.7.1--1.7.2.sql
+  updates/1.7.2--1.7.3.sql
 )
 
 set(MODULE_PATHNAME "$libdir/timescaledb-${PROJECT_VERSION_MOD}")
diff --git a/version.config b/version.config
index b09fca01e9f..e57ed45e556 100644
--- a/version.config
+++ b/version.config
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 version = 2.0.0-dev
-update_from_version = 1.7.2
+update_from_version = 1.7.3