diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 84c04e0..35cedd3 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+ionit 0.2.1 (2019-01-07)
+
+* Remove unnecessary pass statement to make pylint 2.2.2 happy
+  (fixes Debian bug #918550)
+
 ionit 0.2 (2018-11-12)
 
 * Prevent false warning if collect_context returns empty dictionary
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 71e75b8..6c9c7cc 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ def systemd_unit_path():
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     setup(
         name="ionit",
-        version="0.2",
+        version="0.2.1",
         description="Render configuration files from Jinja templates",
         long_description=(
             "ionit is a simple and small configuration templating tool. It collects a context and "