diff --git a/py/CHANGES b/py/CHANGES
index d5fe4dd3b9352..04b1a9323026e 100644
--- a/py/CHANGES
+++ b/py/CHANGES
@@ -1,3 +1,14 @@
+Selenium 2.49.0
+* Have Firefox service write to a file instead of PIPE
+* on osx for firefox, fallback to checking homebrew install, if the default isn't there
+* Added Firefox path variable for string placeholder
+* Update README to show Python 3.2+
+* refactoring all the service classes to use a common one.
+* Add Firefox specific command to switch context between Browser content and Browser chrome
+* updating files after go copyright:update
+* Use specificationLevel to know that we are speaking GeckoDriver
+* Bug fixes: #1294, #1186
+
 Selenium 2.48.0
 * Update error pulling to match spec when we encounter a spec compliant browser.
 * Disable tests that are not working with Marionette when running Marionette tests
diff --git a/py/README b/py/README
index a5d6202967ab0..f20437fee0784 100644
--- a/py/README
+++ b/py/README
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ If you have `pip <http://www.pip-installer.org>`_ on your system, you can simply
 
     pip install -U selenium
 
-Alternately, you can download the source distribution from `PyPI <http://pypi.python.org/pypi/selenium>`_ (e.g. selenium-2.48.tar.gz), unarchive it, and run::
+Alternately, you can download the source distribution from `PyPI <http://pypi.python.org/pypi/selenium>`_ (e.g. selenium-2.49.tar.gz), unarchive it, and run::
 
     python setup.py install
 
@@ -107,11 +107,11 @@ For normal WebDriver scripts (non-Remote), the Java server is not needed.
 
 However, to use Selenium Webdriver Remote or the legacy Selenium API (Selenium-RC), you need to also run the Selenium server.  The server requires a Java Runtime Environment (JRE).
 
-Download the server separately, from: http://selenium-release.storage.googleapis.com/2.48/selenium-server-standalone-2.48.0.jar
+Download the server separately, from: http://selenium-release.storage.googleapis.com/2.49/selenium-server-standalone-2.49.0.jar
 
 Run the server from the command line::
 
-    java -jar selenium-server-standalone-2.48.0.jar
+    java -jar selenium-server-standalone-2.49.0.jar
 
 Then run your Python client scripts.
 
diff --git a/py/docs/source/index.rst b/py/docs/source/index.rst
index 94d75ab41ef02..31f871397f6ad 100644
--- a/py/docs/source/index.rst
+++ b/py/docs/source/index.rst
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ If you have `pip <http://www.pip-installer.org>`_ on your system, you can simply
 
     pip install -U selenium
 
-Alternately, you can download the source distribution from `PyPI <http://pypi.python.org/pypi/selenium>`_ (e.g. selenium-2.48.tar.gz), unarchive it, and run::
+Alternately, you can download the source distribution from `PyPI <http://pypi.python.org/pypi/selenium>`_ (e.g. selenium-2.49.tar.gz), unarchive it, and run::
 
     python setup.py install
 
@@ -107,11 +107,11 @@ For normal WebDriver scripts (non-Remote), the Java server is not needed.
 
 However, to use Selenium Webdriver Remote or the legacy Selenium API (Selenium-RC), you need to also run the Selenium server.  The server requires a Java Runtime Environment (JRE).
 
-Download the server separately, from: http://selenium-release.storage.googleapis.com/2.48/selenium-server-standalone-2.48.0.jar
+Download the server separately, from: http://selenium-release.storage.googleapis.com/2.49/selenium-server-standalone-2.49.0.jar
 
 Run the server from the command line::
 
-    java -jar selenium-server-standalone-2.48.0.jar
+    java -jar selenium-server-standalone-2.49.0.jar
 
 Then run your Python client scripts.
 
diff --git a/py/selenium/__init__.py b/py/selenium/__init__.py
index 0ca3840656346..0bd5197634e21 100644
--- a/py/selenium/__init__.py
+++ b/py/selenium/__init__.py
@@ -18,4 +18,4 @@
 from selenium import selenium
 
 
-__version__ = "2.48.0"
+__version__ = "2.49.0"
diff --git a/py/selenium/webdriver/__init__.py b/py/selenium/webdriver/__init__.py
index 95ab89eece0c2..6835ec083387d 100644
--- a/py/selenium/webdriver/__init__.py
+++ b/py/selenium/webdriver/__init__.py
@@ -32,4 +32,4 @@
 from .common.touch_actions import TouchActions
 from .common.proxy import Proxy
 
-__version__ = '2.48.0'
+__version__ = '2.49.0'
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 1c7e948d0fe7e..4ce4ee2b27918 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
 setup_args = {
     'cmdclass': {'install': install},
     'name': 'selenium',
-    'version': "2.48.0",
+    'version': "2.49.0",
     'description': 'Python bindings for Selenium',
     'long_description': open(join(abspath(dirname(__file__)), "py", "README")).read(),
     'url': 'https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/',