release: 25.1.0

New Features:
- Dirty Stash: global shared state between workers (#3503)
- Dirty Binary Protocol: TLV encoding for efficient IPC (#3500)

Documentation:
- Fix Markdown formatting in /configure

docs/content/2026-news.md

@@ -1,6 +1,41 @@
 <span id="news-2026"></span>
 # Changelog - 2026
 
+## 25.1.0 - 2026-02-12
+
+### New Features
+
+- **Dirty Stash**: Add global shared state between workers via `dirty.stash`
+  ([PR #3503](https://github.com/benoitc/gunicorn/pull/3503))
+  - In-memory key-value store accessible by all workers
+  - Supports get, set, delete, clear, keys, and has operations
+  - Useful for sharing state like feature flags, rate limits, or cached data
+
+- **Dirty Binary Protocol**: Implement efficient binary protocol for dirty arbiter IPC
+  using TLV (Type-Length-Value) encoding
+  ([PR #3500](https://github.com/benoitc/gunicorn/pull/3500))
+  - More efficient than JSON for binary data
+  - Supports all Python types: str, bytes, int, float, bool, None, list, dict
+  - Better performance for large payloads
+
+### Documentation
+
+- Fix Markdown formatting in /configure documentation
+
+---
+
+## 25.0.3 - 2026-02-07
+
+### Bug Fixes
+
+- Fix RuntimeError when StopIteration is raised inside ASGI response body
+  coroutine (PEP 479 compliance)
+
+- Fix deprecation warning for passing maxsplit as positional argument in
+  `re.split()` (Python 3.13+)
+
+---
+
 ## 25.0.2 - 2026-02-06
 
 ### Bug Fixes

docs/content/news.md

@@ -1,6 +1,29 @@
 <span id="news"></span>
 # Changelog
 
+## 25.1.0 - 2026-02-12
+
+### New Features
+
+- **Dirty Stash**: Add global shared state between workers via `dirty.stash`
+  ([PR #3503](https://github.com/benoitc/gunicorn/pull/3503))
+  - In-memory key-value store accessible by all workers
+  - Supports get, set, delete, clear, keys, and has operations
+  - Useful for sharing state like feature flags, rate limits, or cached data
+
+- **Dirty Binary Protocol**: Implement efficient binary protocol for dirty arbiter IPC
+  using TLV (Type-Length-Value) encoding
+  ([PR #3500](https://github.com/benoitc/gunicorn/pull/3500))
+  - More efficient than JSON for binary data
+  - Supports all Python types: str, bytes, int, float, bool, None, list, dict
+  - Better performance for large payloads
+
+### Documentation
+
+- Fix Markdown formatting in /configure documentation
+
+---
+
 ## 25.0.3 - 2026-02-07
 
 ### Bug Fixes

gunicorn/__init__.py

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # This file is part of gunicorn released under the MIT license.
 # See the NOTICE for more information.
 
-version_info = (25, 0, 3)
+version_info = (25, 1, 0)
 __version__ = ".".join([str(v) for v in version_info])
 SERVER = "gunicorn"
 SERVER_SOFTWARE = "%s/%s" % (SERVER, __version__)