diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index cdb8d5e7b..621905d5d 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -16,6 +16,12 @@ OpenNMT-tf follows [semantic versioning 2.0.0](https://semver.org/). The API cov
 
 ### Fixes and improvements
 
+## [1.25.2](https://github.com/OpenNMT/OpenNMT-tf/releases/tag/v1.25.2) (2019-10-22)
+
+### Fixes and improvements
+
+* Revert "When updating vocabularies, weights of new words are randomly initialized instead of zero initialized" as the random distribution is possibly incompatible with the next trained layer
+
 ## [1.25.1](https://github.com/OpenNMT/OpenNMT-tf/releases/tag/v1.25.1) (2019-09-25)
 
 ### Fixes and improvements
diff --git a/docs/conf.py b/docs/conf.py
index 02465dec7..26a341f01 100644
--- a/docs/conf.py
+++ b/docs/conf.py
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 language = "en"
 
 version = "1.25"  # The short X.Y version.
-release = "1.25.1"  # The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags.
+release = "1.25.2"  # The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags.
 
 source_suffix = ".rst"
 master_doc = "index"
diff --git a/opennmt/__init__.py b/opennmt/__init__.py
index 7757c3754..0b71a0007 100644
--- a/opennmt/__init__.py
+++ b/opennmt/__init__.py
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 """OpenNMT module."""
 
-__version__ = "1.25.1"
+__version__ = "1.25.2"
 
 from opennmt import decoders
 from opennmt import encoders
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 16f48c8d8..e27ed0f41 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 
 setup(
     name="OpenNMT-tf",
-    version="1.25.1",
+    version="1.25.2",
     license="MIT",
     description="Neural machine translation and sequence learning using TensorFlow",
     author="OpenNMT",