diff --git a/docs/release-notes.md b/docs/release-notes.md
index 65bfe94..bef46ad 100644
--- a/docs/release-notes.md
+++ b/docs/release-notes.md
@@ -1,17 +1,18 @@
 # Release Notes
 
-### Release v1.0.0
+## Release v1.0.0
+
 ### What's changed
 #### Added Features:
-* Classes for Exemplar selection (Random and RandomSearch)
+* exemplar selection module, classes for exemplar selection (Random and RandomSearch)
 * helper functions: run_experiment, run_optimization and run_evaluation
 
 #### Further Changes:
-* removed deepinfra helper functions, as the langchain-community libary is now working as intended
+* removed deepinfra helper functions as langchain-community libary is now working as intended
 * added license
 * added release notes :)
 
-**Full Changelog**: [here](https://github.com/finitearth/promptolution/compare/v0..20...v1.0.0)
+**Full Changelog**: [here](https://github.com/finitearth/promptolution/compare/v0.2.0...v1.0.0)
 
 ## Release v0.2.0
 
@@ -21,7 +22,6 @@
 * Prompt variation utility function
 * New optimizer: OPro (see [arXiv paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.03409))
 
-
 #### Further Changes:
 * Workflows for automated build, deployment & release
 * New documentation page appearance
@@ -79,12 +79,3 @@
 * Added experiment results and evaluation notebooks
 
 **Full Changelog**: [here](https://github.com/finitearth/promptolution/commits/0.1.0)
-<<<<<<< HEAD
-=======
-coming soon...
->>>>>>> main
-=======
-coming soon...
->>>>>>> parent of e23dd74 (Chore/docs release notes (#18))
-=======
->>>>>>> parent of 25639c9 (Merge branch dev accepting all incoming changes)
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 8635296..359f9a9 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [tool.poetry]
 name = "promptolution"
-version = "1.0.0"
+version = "1.0.1"
 description = ""
 authors = ["Tom Zehle, Moritz Schlager, Timo Heiß"]
 readme = "README.md"