diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 830874e2..b84ed106 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 
 ## [Unreleased]
 
+## [0.22.1] - 2026-04-05
+
 ### Fixed
 
 - Fixed EPG sources that emit a UTF-8 BOM (e.g. ErsatzTV, EPGShare, WebGrab+Plus) parsing 0 channels and 0 programmes after the HTML entity fix introduced in v0.22.0. `bytes.lstrip()` only strips ASCII whitespace, leaving the three BOM bytes (`EF BB BF`) in place, so `stripped.startswith(b'<?xml')` returned `False`. The function fell through to the no-declaration branch and prepended the HTML entity DOCTYPE block _before_ the BOM and XML declaration, producing invalid XML that lxml silently discarded under `recover=True`. Fixed by stripping the BOM explicitly before the whitespace strip: `start.lstrip(b'\xef\xbb\xbf').lstrip()`. BOM-free files are unaffected. (Closes #1173) — Thanks [@dwot](https://github.com/dwot) for the fix!
diff --git a/version.py b/version.py
index ed008927..65d494f5 100644
--- a/version.py
+++ b/version.py
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 """
 Dispatcharr version information.
 """
-__version__ = '0.22.0'  # Follow semantic versioning (MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH)
+__version__ = '0.22.1'  # Follow semantic versioning (MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH)
 __timestamp__ = None    # Set during CI/CD build process