diff --git a/ChangeLog.md b/ChangeLog.md
index adcb0459c703a..302daeb8fd890 100644
--- a/ChangeLog.md
+++ b/ChangeLog.md
@@ -18,8 +18,11 @@ to browse the changes between the tags.
 
 See docs/process.md for more on how version tagging works.
 
-3.1.72 (in development)
+3.1.73 (in development)
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+
+3.1.72 - 11/19/24
+-----------------
 - The `MEMORY64` setting is no longer experimental. At time of writing all
   browsers still require a flag to run the resulting binaries but that should
   change in the coming months since the proposal is now at stage 4. (#22864)
diff --git a/emscripten-version.txt b/emscripten-version.txt
index 096ea46b2e7ec..d319950672d24 100644
--- a/emscripten-version.txt
+++ b/emscripten-version.txt
@@ -1 +1 @@
-3.1.72-git
+3.1.73-git