diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 43e723b..3c25596 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+## 1.0.1
+
+* [CHORE] update documentation
+
 ## 1.0.0
 
 * [CHORE] first stable release
diff --git a/src/qs_codec/__init__.py b/src/qs_codec/__init__.py
index c3a2dc7..689a032 100644
--- a/src/qs_codec/__init__.py
+++ b/src/qs_codec/__init__.py
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 """A query string encoding and decoding library for Python. Ported from qs_codec for JavaScript."""
 
-__version__ = "1.0.0"
+__version__ = "1.0.1"
 
 from .decode import decode
 from .encode import encode