diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index b1a71ea..f987279 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,11 @@
 # CHANGELOG
 
+## v0.2.1 (2024-09-04)
+
+### Performance
+
+* perf: bump to better indexing ([`7beb4b7`](https://github.com/mbari-org/fastapi-vss/commit/7beb4b72a08186ca89f540262f054904509db9c0))
+
 ## v0.2.0 (2024-08-28)
 
 ### Feature
diff --git a/src/app/__init__.py b/src/app/__init__.py
index 64955de..a24473d 100644
--- a/src/app/__init__.py
+++ b/src/app/__init__.py
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 #src/app/__init__.py
-__version__ = "0.2.0"
+__version__ = "0.2.1"