diff --git a/RELEASE_NOTES.md b/RELEASE_NOTES.md
index 798952c..35690d8 100644
--- a/RELEASE_NOTES.md
+++ b/RELEASE_NOTES.md
@@ -5,6 +5,42 @@ Please always read this file before installing the package
 
 Download software here: https://github.com/fritz-hh/OCRmyPDF/tags
 
+v2.1-stable (2014-09-20):
+=======
+
+New features
+------------
+
+- None
+
+Changes
+-------
+
+- None
+
+Fixes
+-----
+
+- Allow execution via simlink
+- Add support for tesseract 3.03
+- Add support for newer version of reportlab
+- Lowered minimum version of gnu parallel
+- Various typo
+
+Tested with
+-----------
+
+- Operating system: FreeBSD 9.1
+- Dependencies:
+   - parallel 20130222
+   - poppler-utils 0.22.2
+   - ImageMagick 6.8.0-7 2013-03-30
+   - Unpaper 0.3
+   - tesseract 3.02.02
+   - Python 2.7.3
+   - ghoscript (gs): 9.06
+   - java: openjdk version "1.7.0_17"
+
 v2.0-stable (2014-01-25):
 =======
 
diff --git a/src/config.sh b/src/config.sh
index 935332b..5626a75 100644
--- a/src/config.sh
+++ b/src/config.sh
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ DEFAULT_DPI=300				# dpi value used as fall back if the page dpi cannot be deter
 #####################################################################################
 
 TOOLNAME="OCRmyPDF"
-VERSION="v2.0-stable"
+VERSION="v2.1-stable"
 
 # possible exit codes
 EXIT_BAD_ARGS="1"