diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 0f5402cc..5b902e97 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 # Release History
 
+# 4.2.1 (2025-11-20)
+- Ignore transactions by default (databricks/databricks-sql-python#711 by @jayantsing-db)
+
 # 4.2.0 (2025-11-14)
 - Add multi-statement transaction support (databricks/databricks-sql-python#704 by @jayantsing-db)
 - Add a workflow to parallelise the E2E tests (databricks/databricks-sql-python#697 by @msrathore-db)
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 7bfc3851..d26a7166 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [tool.poetry]
 name = "databricks-sql-connector"
-version = "4.2.0"
+version = "4.2.1"
 description = "Databricks SQL Connector for Python"
 authors = ["Databricks <databricks-sql-connector-maintainers@databricks.com>"]
 license = "Apache-2.0"
diff --git a/src/databricks/sql/__init__.py b/src/databricks/sql/__init__.py
index 741845d1..cd37e6ce 100644
--- a/src/databricks/sql/__init__.py
+++ b/src/databricks/sql/__init__.py
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ def __repr__(self):
 DATE = DBAPITypeObject("date")
 ROWID = DBAPITypeObject()
 
-__version__ = "4.2.0"
+__version__ = "4.2.1"
 USER_AGENT_NAME = "PyDatabricksSqlConnector"
 
 # These two functions are pyhive legacy