diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index f1c7143da..b722b8dc4 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,3 +1,13 @@
+## Version 2.3.1 - 2021-08-04
+### Improvements
+    - Clean cmake files from old code (#465)
+    - Adding path to type warning message (#471)
+    - Adding compound types example, w dataset and attr (#467)
+
+### Bug Fixes
+    - Resolve an issue where padding of nested compound types were being calculated incorrectly (#461) (#468)
+    - GHA: drop previous runs (#462)
+
 ## Version 2.3 - 2021-05-07
 ### New Features:
     - Add SZIP support (#435)
diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 4c95e7243..9d723845d 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ else()
   cmake_policy(VERSION 3.13)
 endif()
 
-project(HighFive VERSION 2.3)
+project(HighFive VERSION 2.3.1)
 
 configure_file(${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/include/highfive/H5Version.hpp.in
                ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/include/highfive/H5Version.hpp)