diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 8a23aea8c3a866778d36aa210f6e6ea34bf13066..4971b8adf41914c3bac4ce294b073b661b06bef2 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -6,9 +6,9 @@ find_package(GaudiProject)
 #---------------------------------------------------------------
 
 # Declare project name and version
-gaudi_project(DaVinci v44r0
-              USE Analysis v20r0
-                  Stripping v12r0
+gaudi_project(DaVinci v50r0
+              USE Analysis v30r0
+                  Stripping v11r6
               DATA AppConfig VERSION v3r*
                    FieldMap VERSION v5r*
                    ParamFiles VERSION v8r*
diff --git a/ReleaseNotes/v50r0.md b/ReleaseNotes/v50r0.md
new file mode 100644
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@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+2018-04-16 DaVinci v50r0
+========================
+
+Development release prepared on the master branch.
+
+It is based on Gaudi v30r2, LHCb v50r0, Lbcom v30r0, Rec v30r0, Phys v30r0, Analysis v30r0 and Stripping v11r6,
+and uses LCG_93 with ROOT 6.12.06.
+
+- Revert "Merge branch 'cherry-pick-5e437277' into 'master'"
+  - See merge request lhcb/DaVinci!186
+- Cherry-pick MR !166 to master branch
+  - See merge request lhcb/DaVinci!184
+- Cherry-pick MR !181 to master branch
+  - See merge request lhcb/DaVinci!182
+- Cherry-pick MR !179 to master branch
+  - See merge request lhcb/DaVinci!180
+- Cherry-pick MR !177 to master branch
+  - See merge request lhcb/DaVinci!178
+- Cherry-pick MR !175 to master branch
+  - See merge request lhcb/DaVinci!176
+- Cherry-pick MR !173 to master branch
+  - See merge request lhcb/DaVinci!174
+- Cherry-pick MR !171 to master branch
+  - See merge request lhcb/DaVinci!172
+- Cherry-pick MR !162 to master branch
+  - See merge request lhcb/DaVinci!170
+- Removal of Phys/KaliCalo from DaVinci
+  - See merge request lhcb/DaVinci!169
+- Removed use of deprecated factories
+  - See merge request lhcb/DaVinci!127
+- Cherry-pick MR !159 to master branch
+  - See merge request lhcb/DaVinci!161
+- Cherry-pick MR !155 to master branch
+  - See merge request lhcb/DaVinci!157
+- Cherry-pick MR !153 to master branch
+  - See merge request lhcb/DaVinci!154
+- Merged future into master
+  - See merge request lhcb/DaVinci!122
+- Cherry-pick MR ! 151 to master branch
+  - See merge request lhcb/DaVinci!152
+- Cherry-pick MR ! 101 to master branch
+  - See merge request lhcb/DaVinci!146
+- Make sure DaVinci().Detectors property is propagated to SimConf
+  - See merge request lhcb/DaVinci!141
+- Cherry-pick MR !139 to master
+  - See merge request lhcb/DaVinci!142
+- Add validators to upgrade tests
+  - See merge request lhcb/DaVinci!138
+- Add some tests for Upgrade configuration
+  - See merge request lhcb/DaVinci!136
+- Validate DaVinci configuration for Turbo data
+  - See merge request lhcb/DaVinci!116
+- DaVinci: set CondDB(Upgdade=True) for DataType='Upgrade'
+  - See merge request !113