diff --git a/Changelog b/Changelog
index b4b5294755d7f67f0bf3b091112f688ae8df886d..9e5ee87c884bf8e118503982a8a8047e6a6127ae 100644
--- a/Changelog
+++ b/Changelog
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ Entries are sorted chronologically from oldest to youngest within each release,
 releases are sorted from youngest to oldest.
 
 version <next>:
+- metadata (INFO tag) support in WAV muxer
 
 
 version 9_beta1:
diff --git a/libavformat/version.h b/libavformat/version.h
index 79dc7d1439dbef1ea708aa7b8ce522a1d86b8ca5..034fa0adce529b8daf43ce992e50b12b423f53cf 100644
--- a/libavformat/version.h
+++ b/libavformat/version.h
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
 #include "libavutil/avutil.h"
 
 #define LIBAVFORMAT_VERSION_MAJOR 54
-#define LIBAVFORMAT_VERSION_MINOR 18
+#define LIBAVFORMAT_VERSION_MINOR 19
 #define LIBAVFORMAT_VERSION_MICRO  0
 
 #define LIBAVFORMAT_VERSION_INT AV_VERSION_INT(LIBAVFORMAT_VERSION_MAJOR, \
diff --git a/libavformat/wav.c b/libavformat/wav.c
index 47dcc736cc64c4e1cf3113647eebdf720bd871a7..ac78f4bee2082e7e58274cc7f1dc8973e6199ad0 100644
--- a/libavformat/wav.c
+++ b/libavformat/wav.c
@@ -135,6 +135,9 @@ static int wav_write_header(AVFormatContext *s)
     wav->maxpts = wav->last_duration = 0;
     wav->minpts = INT64_MAX;
 
+    /* info header */
+    ff_riff_write_info(s);
+
     /* data header */
     wav->data = ff_start_tag(pb, "data");