diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 97f663372..5cd083c3e 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -2,6 +2,25 @@
 
 All notable changes to this project are documented in this file.
 
+## 0.25.2
+
+**Release date:** 2022-08-29
+
+This prerelease comes with panic recovery, to protect the controller
+from crashing when reconciliations lead to a crash.
+
+In addition, the controller dependencies have been updated to Kubernetes v1.25.0.
+
+Fixes:
+* Fix context cancel defer for commit status updates
+  [#408](https://github.com/fluxcd/notification-controller/pull/408)
+
+Improvements:
+* Enables RecoverPanic option on reconcilers
+  [#403](https://github.com/fluxcd/notification-controller/pull/403)
+* Update Kubernetes packages to v1.25.0
+  [#407](https://github.com/fluxcd/notification-controller/pull/407)
+
 ## 0.25.1
 
 **Release date:** 2022-08-11
diff --git a/config/manager/kustomization.yaml b/config/manager/kustomization.yaml
index 36cf2b988..0422ce94f 100644
--- a/config/manager/kustomization.yaml
+++ b/config/manager/kustomization.yaml
@@ -6,4 +6,4 @@ resources:
 images:
   - name: fluxcd/notification-controller
     newName: fluxcd/notification-controller
-    newTag: v0.25.1
+    newTag: v0.25.2
diff --git a/go.mod b/go.mod
index 2efa36ada..151545dc5 100644
--- a/go.mod
+++ b/go.mod
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ require (
 	github.com/Azure/azure-amqp-common-go/v3 v3.2.3
 	github.com/Azure/azure-event-hubs-go/v3 v3.3.18
 	github.com/containrrr/shoutrrr v0.6.1
-	github.com/fluxcd/notification-controller/api v0.25.1
+	github.com/fluxcd/notification-controller/api v0.25.2
 	github.com/fluxcd/pkg/apis/meta v0.15.0
 	github.com/fluxcd/pkg/masktoken v0.2.0
 	github.com/fluxcd/pkg/runtime v0.17.0