diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 7f96f0373..e336af1e8 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,6 +1,22 @@
+# Changelog
 
+## 2.0.1 - (2021-12-20)
 
-# Changelog
+### Features
+
+- Added Python 3.10 to CI & Updated the Docs
+  (see #1160)
+- Enable mypy in CI (see #1101)
+- Synchronized reading the responses from a connection
+  (see #1106)
+
+### Fixes
+
+- Remove __del__ from Redis (Fixes #1115)
+  (see #1227)
+- fix socket.error raises (see #1129)
+- Fix buffer is closed error when using PythonParser class
+  (see #1213)
 
 ## 2.0.0 - (2021-03-18)
 
diff --git a/CHANGES/1247.misc b/CHANGES/1247.misc
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..6e45ee3e6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/CHANGES/1247.misc
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Release version 2.0.1
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 771e3b615..6fb7290e6 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -31,6 +31,10 @@ The easiest way to install aioredis is by using the package on PyPi:
 
     pip install aioredis
 
+Recommended with hiredis for performance and stability reasons:
+
+    pip install hiredis
+
 ## Requirements
 
 -   Python 3.6+
diff --git a/aioredis/__init__.py b/aioredis/__init__.py
index 063d7201d..bc048ac2b 100644
--- a/aioredis/__init__.py
+++ b/aioredis/__init__.py
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ def int_or_str(value):
         return value
 
 
-__version__ = "2.0.0"
+__version__ = "2.0.1"
 VERSION = tuple(map(int_or_str, __version__.split(".")))
 
 __all__ = [