diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 5862352..fdac2eb 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,12 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## [0.5.0](https://github.com/snakemake/snakemake-executor-plugin-slurm/compare/v0.4.5...v0.5.0) (2024-05-06)
+
+
+### Features
+
+* wildcards in comment string [#85](https://github.com/snakemake/snakemake-executor-plugin-slurm/issues/85) ([#88](https://github.com/snakemake/snakemake-executor-plugin-slurm/issues/88)) ([730cac0](https://github.com/snakemake/snakemake-executor-plugin-slurm/commit/730cac09c12a7038557ee937bc58c8c9e483c8f3))
+
 ## [0.4.5](https://github.com/snakemake/snakemake-executor-plugin-slurm/compare/v0.4.4...v0.4.5) (2024-04-17)
 
 
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index a6f8e82..53cfcce 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [tool.poetry]
 name = "snakemake-executor-plugin-slurm"
-version = "0.4.5"
+version = "0.5.0"
 description = "A Snakemake executor plugin for submitting jobs to a SLURM cluster."
 authors = [
     "Christian Meesters <meesters@uni-mainz.de>",
diff --git a/snakemake_executor_plugin_slurm/__init__.py b/snakemake_executor_plugin_slurm/__init__.py
index c5061c8..35d9cb6 100644
--- a/snakemake_executor_plugin_slurm/__init__.py
+++ b/snakemake_executor_plugin_slurm/__init__.py
@@ -91,9 +91,13 @@ def run_job(self, job: JobExecutorInterface):
         # generic part of a submission string:
         # we use a run_uuid as the job-name, to allow `--name`-based
         # filtering in the job status checks (`sacct --name` and `squeue --name`)
+        if wildcard_str == "":
+            comment_str = f"rule_{job.name}"
+        else:
+            comment_str = f"rule_{job.name}_wildcards_{wildcard_str}"
         call = (
             f"sbatch --job-name {self.run_uuid} --output {slurm_logfile} --export=ALL "
-            f"--comment {job.name}"
+            f"--comment {comment_str}"
         )
 
         call += self.get_account_arg(job)