diff --git a/.mailmap b/.mailmap
index abd7b31eaaad..862e3d63cdb7 100644
--- a/.mailmap
+++ b/.mailmap
@@ -364,6 +364,8 @@ Nicholas A. Del Grosso <delgrosso@bio.lmu.de> nickdg <delgrosso@bio.lmu.de>
 Nicholas McKibben <nicholas.bgp@gmail.com>
 Nick Minkyu Lee <mknicklee@protonmail.com> fivemok <9394929+fivemok@users.noreply.github.com>
 Oliver Eberle <oliver_eberle@web.de>
+Omid Rajaei <rajaei.net@gmail.com>
+Omid Rajaei <rajaei.net@gmail.com> <89868505+rajaeinet@users.noreply.github.com>
 Ondřej Čertík <ondrej.certik@gmail.com>
 Óscar Villellas Guillén <oscar.villellas@continuum.io>
 Panos Mavrogiorgos <pmav99@users.noreply.github.com>
diff --git a/doc/changelog/1.22.1-changelog.rst b/doc/changelog/1.22.1-changelog.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..3b401c1d2bc5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/changelog/1.22.1-changelog.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+
+Contributors
+============
+
+A total of 14 people contributed to this release.  People with a "+" by their
+names contributed a patch for the first time.
+
+* Arryan Singh
+* Bas van Beek
+* Charles Harris
+* Denis Laxalde
+* Isuru Fernando
+* Kevin Sheppard
+* Matthew Barber
+* Matti Picus
+* Melissa Weber Mendonça
+* Mukulika Pahari
+* Omid Rajaei +
+* Pearu Peterson
+* Ralf Gommers
+* Sebastian Berg
+
+Pull requests merged
+====================
+
+A total of 20 pull requests were merged for this release.
+
+* `#20702 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/20702>`__: MAINT, DOC: Post 1.22.0 release fixes.
+* `#20703 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/20703>`__: DOC, BUG: Use pngs instead of svgs.
+* `#20704 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/20704>`__: DOC:Fixed the link on user-guide landing page
+* `#20714 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/20714>`__: BUG: Restore vc141 support
+* `#20724 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/20724>`__: BUG: Fix array dimensions solver for multidimensional arguments...
+* `#20725 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/20725>`__: TYP: change type annotation for `__array_namespace__` to ModuleType
+* `#20726 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/20726>`__: TYP, MAINT: Allow `ndindex` to accept integer tuples
+* `#20757 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/20757>`__: BUG: Relax dtype identity check in reductions
+* `#20763 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/20763>`__: TYP: Allow time manipulation functions to accept `date` and `timedelta`...
+* `#20768 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/20768>`__: TYP: Relax the type of `ndarray.__array_finalize__`
+* `#20795 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/20795>`__: MAINT: Raise RuntimeError if setuptools version is too recent.
+* `#20796 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/20796>`__: BUG, DOC: Fixes SciPy docs build warnings
+* `#20797 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/20797>`__: DOC: fix OpenBLAS version in release note
+* `#20798 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/20798>`__: PERF: Optimize array check for bounded 0,1 values
+* `#20805 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/20805>`__: BUG: Fix that reduce-likes honor out always (and live in the...
+* `#20806 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/20806>`__: BUG: ``array_api.argsort(descending=True)`` respects relative...
+* `#20807 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/20807>`__: BUG: Allow integer inputs for pow-related functions in `array_api`
+* `#20814 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/20814>`__: DOC: Refer to NumPy, not pandas, in main page
+* `#20815 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/20815>`__: DOC: Update Copyright to 2022 [License]
+* `#20819 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/20819>`__: BUG: Return correctly shaped inverse indices in array_api set...
diff --git a/doc/source/release/1.22.1-notes.rst b/doc/source/release/1.22.1-notes.rst
index 09c5cff8c33d..e494bdef45ce 100644
--- a/doc/source/release/1.22.1-notes.rst
+++ b/doc/source/release/1.22.1-notes.rst
@@ -4,42 +4,60 @@
 NumPy 1.22.1 Release Notes
 ==========================
 
+The NumPy 1.22.1 is maintenance release that fixes bugs discovered after the
+1.22.0 release. Notable fixes are:
 
-Highlights
-==========
+- Fix f2PY docstring problems (SciPy)
+- Fix reduction type problems (AstroPy)
+- Fix various typing bugs.
 
+The Python versions supported for this release are 3.8-3.10.
 
-New functions
-=============
 
-
-Deprecations
+Contributors
 ============
 
-
-Future Changes
-==============
-
-
-Expired deprecations
+A total of 14 people contributed to this release.  People with a "+" by their
+names contributed a patch for the first time.
+
+* Arryan Singh
+* Bas van Beek
+* Charles Harris
+* Denis Laxalde
+* Isuru Fernando
+* Kevin Sheppard
+* Matthew Barber
+* Matti Picus
+* Melissa Weber Mendonça
+* Mukulika Pahari
+* Omid Rajaei +
+* Pearu Peterson
+* Ralf Gommers
+* Sebastian Berg
+
+
+Pull requests merged
 ====================
 
-
-Compatibility notes
-===================
-
-
-C API changes
-=============
-
-
-New Features
-============
-
-
-Improvements
-============
-
-
-Changes
-=======
+A total of 20 pull requests were merged for this release.
+
+* `#20702 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/20702>`__: MAINT, DOC: Post 1.22.0 release fixes.
+* `#20703 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/20703>`__: DOC, BUG: Use pngs instead of svgs.
+* `#20704 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/20704>`__: DOC: Fixed the link on user-guide landing page
+* `#20714 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/20714>`__: BUG: Restore vc141 support
+* `#20724 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/20724>`__: BUG: Fix array dimensions solver for multidimensional arguments...
+* `#20725 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/20725>`__: TYP: change type annotation for ``__array_namespace__`` to ModuleType
+* `#20726 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/20726>`__: TYP, MAINT: Allow ``ndindex`` to accept integer tuples
+* `#20757 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/20757>`__: BUG: Relax dtype identity check in reductions
+* `#20763 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/20763>`__: TYP: Allow time manipulation functions to accept ``date`` and ``timedelta``...
+* `#20768 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/20768>`__: TYP: Relax the type of ``ndarray.__array_finalize__``
+* `#20795 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/20795>`__: MAINT: Raise RuntimeError if setuptools version is too recent.
+* `#20796 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/20796>`__: BUG, DOC: Fixes SciPy docs build warnings
+* `#20797 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/20797>`__: DOC: fix OpenBLAS version in release note
+* `#20798 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/20798>`__: PERF: Optimize array check for bounded 0,1 values
+* `#20805 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/20805>`__: BUG: Fix that reduce-likes honor out always (and live in the...
+* `#20806 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/20806>`__: BUG: ``array_api.argsort(descending=True)`` respects relative...
+* `#20807 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/20807>`__: BUG: Allow integer inputs for pow-related functions in ``array_api``
+* `#20814 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/20814>`__: DOC: Refer to NumPy, not pandas, in main page
+* `#20815 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/20815>`__: DOC: Update Copyright to 2022 [License]
+* `#20819 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/20819>`__: BUG: Return correctly shaped inverse indices in array_api set...