diff --git a/CHANGELOG.rst b/CHANGELOG.rst
index 65297b4..c81bbe2 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.rst
+++ b/CHANGELOG.rst
@@ -1,3 +1,23 @@
+2.2.1 (2024-07-04)
+-------------------
+- Requires Python >= 3.8
+- Adds OTels semantic conventions for http server span attributes
+  - `http.request.method`
+  - `network.protocol.version`
+  - `url.path`
+  - `server.address`
+  - `server.port`
+  - `url.scheme`
+  - `user_agent.original`
+  - `url.query`
+  - `client.address`
+  - `http.response.status_code`
+  - `otel.status_code`
+  - `otel.library.name`
+  - `otel.library.version`
+- Adds the Zipkin Annotation (OTel Event) when an exception occures as the type of exception
+- Adds `exception.stacktrace` as an attribute if an exception occurs
+
 2.1.3 (2023-10-09)
 -------------------
 - Handle exceptions during request processing to set response_status_code=500 and error.type
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 94dbe63..6debf84 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-[![Travis](https://img.shields.io/travis/Yelp/pyramid_zipkin.svg)](https://travis-ci.org/Yelp/pyramid_zipkin?branch=master)
 [![Coverage Status](https://img.shields.io/coveralls/Yelp/pyramid_zipkin.svg)](https://coveralls.io/r/Yelp/pyramid_zipkin)
 [![PyPi version](https://img.shields.io/pypi/v/pyramid_zipkin.svg)](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyramid_zipkin/)
 [![Supported Python versions](https://img.shields.io/pypi/pyversions/pyramid_zipkin.svg)](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyramid_zipkin/)
@@ -40,8 +39,8 @@ In your service's webapp, you need to include:
 To bump and deploy a new version after changes have been merged into master, follow these steps:
 - `$ git checkout master && git pull`
 - update `CHANGELOG.rst` to document the changes
-- update `__version__` in `setup.py`
-- `$ git add CHANGELOG.rst setup.py && git commit -m 'version <VERSION>'`
+- update `__version__` in `pyramid_zipkin/version.py`
+- `$ git add CHANGELOG.rst pyramid_zipkin/version.py && git commit -m 'version <VERSION>'`
 - `$ git tag v<VERSION>`
 - `$ git push origin master --tags`
 
diff --git a/pyramid_zipkin/version.py b/pyramid_zipkin/version.py
index 04188a1..36a511e 100644
--- a/pyramid_zipkin/version.py
+++ b/pyramid_zipkin/version.py
@@ -1 +1 @@
-__version__ = '2.2.0'
+__version__ = '2.2.1'
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index a621f82..1e6f3d2 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 from setuptools import find_packages
 from setuptools import setup
 
-version = exec(open('pyramid_zipkin/version.py').read())
+from pyramid_zipkin.version import __version__ as version
 
 setup(
     name='pyramid_zipkin',