diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index fb6b8b7..bbb2ca9 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -7,6 +7,14 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 
 ## [Unreleased]
 
+---
+
+## [0.17.1] - 2024-08-20
+
+### Updated
+
+- updated sqlx to 0.8.0
+
 ---
 ## [0.17.0] - 2024-06-10
 
@@ -342,7 +350,9 @@ Refer to: [#107], [#108] and [#109]
 - Bump min version of supported Rust to 1.58 since <1.58 fails to resolve sqlx-core dep
 
 
-[Unreleased]: https://github.com/primait/event_sourcing.rs/compare/0.17.0...HEAD
+
+[Unreleased]: https://github.com/primait/event_sourcing.rs/compare/0.17.1...HEAD
+[0.17.1]: https://github.com/primait/event_sourcing.rs/compare/0.17.0...0.17.1
 [0.17.0]: https://github.com/primait/event_sourcing.rs/compare/0.16.0...0.17.0
 [0.16.0]: https://github.com/primait/event_sourcing.rs/compare/0.15.0...0.16.0
 [0.15.0]: https://github.com/primait/event_sourcing.rs/compare/0.14.0...0.15.0
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 4bb0227..30bb69c 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ name = "esrs"
 readme = "README.md"
 repository = "https://github.com/primait/event_sourcing.rs"
 rust-version = "1.74.0"
-version = "0.17.0"
+version = "0.17.1"
 
 [package.metadata.docs.rs]
 all-features = true
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ async-trait = "0.1.50"
 ouroboros = "0.18"
 
 # Sql library for async impl
-sqlx = { version = "0.7.0", features = ["runtime-tokio-native-tls", "uuid", "json", "chrono"], optional = true }
+sqlx = { version = "0.8.0", features = ["runtime-tokio-native-tls", "uuid", "json", "chrono"], optional = true }
 # Kafka library
 rdkafka = { version = "0.35.*", features = ["ssl-vendored"], optional = true }
 # Rabbit library