diff --git a/.tito/packages/mock b/.tito/packages/mock
index b9c9d1f4c..0a198f793 100644
--- a/.tito/packages/mock
+++ b/.tito/packages/mock
@@ -1 +1 @@
-5.1.1-1 mock/
+5.2-1 mock/
diff --git a/docs/Release-Notes-5.2.md b/docs/Release-Notes-5.2.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..b3971856e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/Release-Notes-5.2.md
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+---
+layout: default
+title: Release Notes - Mock 5.2
+---
+
+Released on 2023-09-27.
+
+### Mock 5.2 new features
+
+- Mock newly logs out its command-line arguments to better deduct what was
+  happening at build time.
+
+
+### Bugfixes
+
+- The fixes introduced in Mock 5.1 included a compatibility issue with Python in
+  Enterprise Linux 8 due to a dependency on the `capture_output=True` feature in
+  the `subprocess` module, which was added in Python 3.7.  However, EL 8 is
+  running on Python 3.6.  This compatibility issue has been resolved in Mock by
+  using `stdout=subprocess.PIPE` instead.  This update was made based on a [report
+  from Bodhi update](https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2023-45ace77fca). 
+- Previous versions of Mock mistakenly expanded every `~` occurrence
+  (tilde character) in the specified source path with `--copyout`.  So
+  files `~/foo~bar.txt` were searched on path `/builddir/foo/builddirbar.txt`
+  instead of just `/builddir/foo~bar.txt`.  Fixes [rhbz#2239035][]. 
+- The Mock state monitoring (creating state.log) was fixed so that Mock, unless
+  some exception is raised, always checks that we finished all the states we
+  started.
+
+[rhbz#2239035]: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2239035
diff --git a/mock/mock.spec b/mock/mock.spec
index 0c0fdd165..79197ed29 100644
--- a/mock/mock.spec
+++ b/mock/mock.spec
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 
 Summary: Builds packages inside chroots
 Name: mock
-Version: 5.1.1.post1
+Version: 5.2
 Release: 1%{?dist}
 License: GPL-2.0-or-later
 # Source is created by
@@ -275,6 +275,14 @@ pylint-3 py/mockbuild/ py/*.py py/mockbuild/plugins/* || :
 %dir  %{_datadir}/cheat
 
 %changelog
+* Wed Sep 27 2023 Pavel Raiskup <praiskup@redhat.com> 5.2-1
+- Fix '~' user source expansion for --copyout
+- Compatibility fix with EL 8
+- Log out the command-line arguments
+- Make sure that 'state' is always finished
+- README.md: cleaning up
+- Post-release administrivia
+
 * Mon Sep 18 2023 Pavel Raiskup <praiskup@redhat.com> 5.1.1-1
 - keep re-creating the root directory for each build
 
diff --git a/releng/release-notes-next/cmdline-args.feature b/releng/release-notes-next/cmdline-args.feature
deleted file mode 100644
index d32af98e1..000000000
--- a/releng/release-notes-next/cmdline-args.feature
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Mock newly logs its command-line arguments.
diff --git a/releng/release-notes-next/epel-8-compat.bugfix.md b/releng/release-notes-next/epel-8-compat.bugfix.md
deleted file mode 100644
index fdb41d6cd..000000000
--- a/releng/release-notes-next/epel-8-compat.bugfix.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-The fixes introduced in Mock 5.1 included a compatibility issue with Python in
-Enterprise Linux 8 due to a dependency on the `capture_output=True` feature in
-the `subprocess` module, which was added in Python 3.7.  However, EL 8 is
-running on Python 3.6.  This compatibility issue has been resolved in Mock by
-using `stdout=subprocess.PIPE` instead.  This update was made based on a [report
-from Bodhi update](https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2023-45ace77fca).
diff --git a/releng/release-notes-next/expanduser-with-copyout.bugfix b/releng/release-notes-next/expanduser-with-copyout.bugfix
deleted file mode 100644
index f91edc4a1..000000000
--- a/releng/release-notes-next/expanduser-with-copyout.bugfix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-Previous versions of Mock mistakenly expanded every `~` occurrence
-(tilde character) in the specified source path with `--copyout`.  So
-files `~/foo~bar.txt` were searched on path `/builddir/foo/builddirbar.txt`
-instead of just `/builddir/foo~bar.txt`.  Fixes [rhbz#2239035][].
diff --git a/releng/release-notes-next/state-log.bugfix b/releng/release-notes-next/state-log.bugfix
deleted file mode 100644
index 6f1f6451c..000000000
--- a/releng/release-notes-next/state-log.bugfix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-The Mock state monitoring (creating state.log) was fixed so that Mock, unless
-some exception is raised, always checks that we finished all the states we
-started.