diff --git a/Changes b/Changes
index 3ecfcc8..32aceb4 100644
--- a/Changes
+++ b/Changes
@@ -1,12 +1,14 @@
 Revision history for libev, a high-performance and full-featured event loop.
 
-	- move the darwin select workaround highe rin ev.c, as newre versions of
+4.25 Fri Dec 21 07:49:20 CET 2018
+        - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: EV_THROW was renamed to EV_NOEXCEPT
+          (EV_THROW sitll provided) and now uses noexcept on C++11 or newer.
+	- move the darwin select workaround highe rin ev.c, as newer versions of
           darwin managed to break their broken select even more.
 	- ANDROID => __ANDROID__ (reported by enh@google.com).
         - disable epoll_create1 on android because it has broken header files
           and google is unwilling to fix them (reported by enh@google.com).
         - avoid a minor compilation warning on win32.
-        - c++: rename EV_THROW to EV_NOEXCEPT.
         - c++: remove deprecated dynamic throw() specifications.
         - c++: improve the (unsupported) bad_loop exception class.
         - backport perl ev_periodic example to C, untested.
diff --git a/ev.h b/ev.h
index 6f1686f..f76c892 100644
--- a/ev.h
+++ b/ev.h
@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@
 # define EV_CPP(x)
 # define EV_NOEXCEPT
 #endif
+#define EV_THROW EV_NOEXCEPT /* pre-4.25, do not use in new code */
 
 EV_CPP(extern "C" {)
 
@@ -211,7 +212,7 @@ struct ev_loop;
 /*****************************************************************************/
 
 #define EV_VERSION_MAJOR 4
-#define EV_VERSION_MINOR 24
+#define EV_VERSION_MINOR 25
 
 /* eventmask, revents, events... */
 enum {
diff --git a/ev.pod b/ev.pod
index 66764d9..0462e40 100644
--- a/ev.pod
+++ b/ev.pod
@@ -3980,14 +3980,14 @@ libev sources can be compiled as C++. Therefore, code that uses the C API
 will work fine.
 
 Proper exception specifications might have to be added to callbacks passed
-to libev: exceptions may be thrown only from watcher callbacks, all
-other callbacks (allocator, syserr, loop acquire/release and periodic
-reschedule callbacks) must not throw exceptions, and might need a C<throw
-()> specification. If you have code that needs to be compiled as both C
-and C++ you can use the C<EV_THROW> macro for this:
+to libev: exceptions may be thrown only from watcher callbacks, all other
+callbacks (allocator, syserr, loop acquire/release and periodic reschedule
+callbacks) must not throw exceptions, and might need a C<noexcept>
+specification. If you have code that needs to be compiled as both C and
+C++ you can use the C<EV_NOEXCEPT> macro for this:
 
    static void
-   fatal_error (const char *msg) EV_THROW
+   fatal_error (const char *msg) EV_NOEXCEPT
    {
      perror (msg);
      abort ();