diff --git a/CHANGELOG.rst b/CHANGELOG.rst
index 035bdf87d..086d780e4 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.rst
+++ b/CHANGELOG.rst
@@ -1,6 +1,12 @@
 Changelog
 =========
 
+New in release (0.9.7) [29/07/2020]
+-----------------------------------
+- Bug fixes to problems introduced in 0.9.6.
+- Cosmetic fixes to logging and misleading status reports in workflows.
+
+
 New in release (0.9.6) [28/07/2020]
 -----------------------------------
 - Improvements to ASE and pymatgen interoperability (#80)
diff --git a/matador/__init__.py b/matador/__init__.py
index ba63cfc6c..146b1ccd7 100644
--- a/matador/__init__.py
+++ b/matador/__init__.py
@@ -11,6 +11,6 @@
 __all__ = ['__version__']
 __author__ = 'Matthew Evans'
 __maintainer__ = 'Matthew Evans'
-__version__ = "0.9.6"
+__version__ = "0.9.7"
 
 script_epilog = f"Written and maintained by Matthew Evans (me388@cam.ac.uk) 2016-2020, version {__version__}."