diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index af11f35..c3171da 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ and **Merged pull requests**. Critical items to know are:
 The versions coincide with releases on pip. Only major versions will be released as tags on Github.
 
 ## [0.0.x](https://github.com/oras-project/oras-py/tree/main) (0.0.x)
+ - release request (0.2.21)
  - add missing basic auth data for request token function in token auth backend (0.2.2)
  - re-enable chunked upload (0.2.1)
  - refactor of auth to be provided by backend modules (0.2.0)
diff --git a/oras/version.py b/oras/version.py
index 4f1beeb..f9b0fc9 100644
--- a/oras/version.py
+++ b/oras/version.py
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 __copyright__ = "Copyright The ORAS Authors."
 __license__ = "Apache-2.0"
 
-__version__ = "0.2.2"
+__version__ = "0.2.21"
 AUTHOR = "Vanessa Sochat"
 EMAIL = "vsoch@users.noreply.github.com"
 NAME = "oras"