diff --git a/.changes/1.25.2.json b/.changes/1.25.2.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..4bd0f61226
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changes/1.25.2.json
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+[
+  {
+    "category": "``iam``",
+    "description": "[``botocore``] Doc only update that corrects instances of CLI not using an entity.",
+    "type": "api-change"
+  },
+  {
+    "category": "``kafka``",
+    "description": "[``botocore``] This release adds support for Tiered Storage. UpdateStorage allows you to control the Storage Mode for supported storage tiers.",
+    "type": "api-change"
+  },
+  {
+    "category": "``neptune``",
+    "description": "[``botocore``] Added a new cluster-level attribute to set the capacity range for Neptune Serverless instances.",
+    "type": "api-change"
+  },
+  {
+    "category": "``sagemaker``",
+    "description": "[``botocore``] Amazon SageMaker Automatic Model Tuning now supports specifying Grid Search strategy for tuning jobs, which evaluates all hyperparameter combinations exhaustively based on the categorical hyperparameters provided.",
+    "type": "api-change"
+  }
+]
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.rst b/CHANGELOG.rst
index fae6f29421..f521769d31 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.rst
+++ b/CHANGELOG.rst
@@ -2,6 +2,15 @@
 CHANGELOG
 =========
 
+1.25.2
+======
+
+* api-change:``iam``: [``botocore``] Doc only update that corrects instances of CLI not using an entity.
+* api-change:``kafka``: [``botocore``] This release adds support for Tiered Storage. UpdateStorage allows you to control the Storage Mode for supported storage tiers.
+* api-change:``neptune``: [``botocore``] Added a new cluster-level attribute to set the capacity range for Neptune Serverless instances.
+* api-change:``sagemaker``: [``botocore``] Amazon SageMaker Automatic Model Tuning now supports specifying Grid Search strategy for tuning jobs, which evaluates all hyperparameter combinations exhaustively based on the categorical hyperparameters provided.
+
+
 1.25.1
 ======
 
diff --git a/boto3/__init__.py b/boto3/__init__.py
index 9c7a9ad7b6..79fea3396f 100644
--- a/boto3/__init__.py
+++ b/boto3/__init__.py
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 from boto3.session import Session
 
 __author__ = 'Amazon Web Services'
-__version__ = '1.25.1'
+__version__ = '1.25.2'
 
 
 # The default Boto3 session; autoloaded when needed.
diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
index d414add393..80b35bbd8b 100644
--- a/setup.cfg
+++ b/setup.cfg
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ universal = 0
 
 [metadata]
 requires_dist =
-    botocore>=1.28.1,<1.29.0
+    botocore>=1.28.2,<1.29.0
     jmespath>=0.7.1,<2.0.0
     s3transfer>=0.6.0,<0.7.0
 
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 98efb72d89..ffe2d113cb 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 
 
 requires = [
-    'botocore>=1.28.1,<1.29.0',
+    'botocore>=1.28.2,<1.29.0',
     'jmespath>=0.7.1,<2.0.0',
     's3transfer>=0.6.0,<0.7.0',
 ]