diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md
index 3a522f8518..58973d2a5d 100644
--- a/CHANGES.md
+++ b/CHANGES.md
@@ -1,3 +1,13 @@
+Synapse 1.22.0 (2020-10-30)
+===========================
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- Fix a bug where an appservice may not be forwarded events for a room it was recently invited to. Broken 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. ([\#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
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@@ -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 0508d8f109..0000000000
--- a/changelog.d/8678.bugfix
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@@ -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 40f02443f9..ae8948650f 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.