diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 1f6aa8ce93..70bfceed49 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,3 +1,17 @@
+# ChangeLog
+
+This log summarizes the changes in each released version of rouge. The versioning scheme
+we use is semver, although we will often release new lexers in minor versions, as a
+practical matter.
+
+## version 1.11.1: 2016-06-14
+
+  * new guesser infrastructure, support for emacs and vim modelines (#489)
+  * javascript bugfix for nested objects with quoted keys (#496)
+  * new theme: Gruvbox (thanks @jamietanna!)
+  * praat: lots of improvements (thanks @jjatria)
+  * fix for rougify error when highlighting from stdin (#493)
+
 ## version 1.11.0: 2016-06-06
 
   * groovy:
diff --git a/lib/rouge/version.rb b/lib/rouge/version.rb
index fb9c97c38b..11e795d2ba 100644
--- a/lib/rouge/version.rb
+++ b/lib/rouge/version.rb
@@ -2,6 +2,6 @@
 
 module Rouge
   def self.version
-    "1.11.0"
+    "1.11.1"
   end
 end