diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md
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--- a/CHANGES.md
+++ b/CHANGES.md
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+# sparsevec 0.2.1 (2024-11-24)
+
+* Optimise the creation of a sparsevec: when used, for example, for grmtools'
+  grammars, this can be a substantial (e.g. in one example over 30x) speedup.
+
+
 # sparsevec 0.2.0 (2022-07-25)
 
 * Move the backing storage (consisting of `PackedVec`s and `Vob`s) from `usize`
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
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--- a/Cargo.toml
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@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 [package]
 name = "sparsevec"
 description = "Compress vectors using row displacement"
-version = "0.2.0"
+version = "0.2.1"
 edition = "2018"
 authors = ["Lukas Diekmann <lukas.diekmann@gmail.com>"]
 repository = "https://github.com/softdevteam/sparsevec/"