diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md
index 3a522f851..8bd782508 100644
--- a/CHANGES.md
+++ b/CHANGES.md
@@ -1,3 +1,13 @@
+Synapse 1.22.1 (2020-10-30)
+===========================
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- Fix a bug where an appservice may not be forwarded events for a room it was recently invited to. Broke in v1.22.0. ([\#8676](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8676))
+- Fix `Object of type frozendict is not JSON serializable` exceptions when using third-party event rules. Broke in v1.22.0. ([\#8678](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8678))
+
+
 Synapse 1.22.0 (2020-10-27)
 ===========================
 
diff --git a/changelog.d/8676.bugfix b/changelog.d/8676.bugfix
deleted file mode 100644
index df16c7276..000000000
--- a/changelog.d/8676.bugfix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Fix a bug where an appservice may not be forwarded events for a room it was recently invited to. Broken in v1.22.0.
diff --git a/changelog.d/8678.bugfix b/changelog.d/8678.bugfix
deleted file mode 100644
index 0508d8f10..000000000
--- a/changelog.d/8678.bugfix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Fix `Object of type frozendict is not JSON serializable` exceptions when using third-party event rules.
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 40f02443f..ae8948650 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+matrix-synapse-py3 (1.22.1) stable; urgency=medium
+
+  * New synapse release 1.22.1.
+
+ -- Synapse Packaging team <packages@matrix.org>  Fri, 30 Oct 2020 15:25:37 +0000
+
 matrix-synapse-py3 (1.22.0) stable; urgency=medium
 
   * New synapse release 1.22.0.
diff --git a/synapse/__init__.py b/synapse/__init__.py
index 35a82c0bf..3e1df2b03 100644
--- a/synapse/__init__.py
+++ b/synapse/__init__.py
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ try:
 except ImportError:
     pass
 
-__version__ = "1.22.0"
+__version__ = "1.22.1"
 
 if bool(os.environ.get("SYNAPSE_TEST_PATCH_LOG_CONTEXTS", False)):
     # We import here so that we don't have to install a bunch of deps when