diff --git a/CHANGELOG.rst b/CHANGELOG.rst
index f3192d90c..e279d9e05 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.rst
+++ b/CHANGELOG.rst
@@ -11,6 +11,19 @@
 Changelog
 +++++++++
 
+0.22.0
+======
+
+- Add support for adding RPATH entries specified with ``install_rpath``
+  argument to Meson functions that accept it.
+- Add support for removing build RPATH entries added by Meson to allow
+  executing parts of the project from the build directory.
+- Fix corner cases in handling RPATH entries and relocation of shared
+  libraries distributed as part of Python packages.
+
+Daniele Nicolodi, Mike Taves, Nathan Goldbaum, Ralf Gommers --- 25-09-2026.
+
+
 0.21.1
 ======
 
diff --git a/mesonpy/__init__.py b/mesonpy/__init__.py
index a397db8a1..928d8acb0 100644
--- a/mesonpy/__init__.py
+++ b/mesonpy/__init__.py
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ class InvalidLicenseExpression(Exception):  # type: ignore[no-redef]
     Path = Union[str, os.PathLike[str]]
 
 
-__version__ = '0.22.0.dev0'
+__version__ = '0.23.0.dev0'
 
 
 _PYPROJECT_METADATA_VERSION = tuple(map(int, pyproject_metadata.__version__.split('.')[:2]))
diff --git a/mesonpy/_rpath.py b/mesonpy/_rpath.py
index 662b99b8a..65039c665 100644
--- a/mesonpy/_rpath.py
+++ b/mesonpy/_rpath.py
@@ -104,6 +104,10 @@ def set_rpath(filepath: Path, old: list[str], rpath: list[str]) -> None:
         add = rpath[keep:]
 
         if delete:
+            # ``install_name_tool`` does not accept repeated ``-delete_rpath``
+            # arguments. There should not be duplicated in the existing RPATH,
+            # but the assert should make this occurrence easier to debug.
+            assert unique(delete) == delete
             args = [a for p in delete for a in ('-delete_rpath', p)]
             subprocess.run(['install_name_tool', *args, os.fspath(filepath)], check=True)
 
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index df598d8fc..bffd83490 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ requires = [
 
 [project]
 name = 'meson-python'
-version = '0.22.0.dev0'
+version = '0.23.0.dev0'
 description = 'The Python build backend for Meson projects'
 readme = 'README.rst'
 requires-python = '>= 3.10'