diff --git a/CHANGELOG.rst b/CHANGELOG.rst
index 95fef3d8..d381f5c1 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.rst
+++ b/CHANGELOG.rst
@@ -6,6 +6,21 @@ Community MySQL Collection Release Notes
 
 This changelog describes changes after version 2.0.0.
 
+v3.7.1
+======
+
+Release Summary
+---------------
+
+This is a patch release of the community.mysql collection.
+This changelog contains all changes to the modules and plugins in this collection
+that have been made after the previous release.
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- mysql module utils - use the connection arguments ``db`` instead of ``database`` and ``passwd`` instead of ``password`` when running with older mysql drivers (MySQLdb < 2.1.0 or PyMySQL < 1.0.0) (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.mysql/pull/551).
+
 v3.7.0
 ======
 
diff --git a/changelogs/changelog.yaml b/changelogs/changelog.yaml
index def5b737..196a6bd0 100644
--- a/changelogs/changelog.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/changelog.yaml
@@ -313,7 +313,22 @@ releases:
 
         that have been made after the previous release.'
     fragments:
-    - 3.7.0.yml
     - 177-change_deprecated_connection_parameters.yml
+    - 3.7.0.yml
     - 523-add-max_statement_time_resource-limit.yml
     release_date: '2023-05-05'
+  3.7.1:
+    changes:
+      bugfixes:
+      - mysql module utils - use the connection arguments ``db`` instead of ``database``
+        and ``passwd`` instead of ``password`` when running with older mysql drivers
+        (MySQLdb < 2.1.0 or PyMySQL < 1.0.0) (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.mysql/pull/551).
+      release_summary: 'This is a patch release of the community.mysql collection.
+
+        This changelog contains all changes to the modules and plugins in this collection
+
+        that have been made after the previous release.'
+    fragments:
+    - 3.7.1.yml
+    - 551-fix_connection_arguments_driver_compatability.yaml
+    release_date: '2023-05-22'
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/551-fix_connection_arguments_driver_compatability.yaml b/changelogs/fragments/551-fix_connection_arguments_driver_compatability.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index be18f560..00000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/551-fix_connection_arguments_driver_compatability.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - mysql module utils - use the connection arguments ``db`` instead of ``database`` and ``passwd`` instead of ``password`` when running with older mysql drivers (MySQLdb < 2.1.0 or PyMySQL < 1.0.0) (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.mysql/pull/551).
diff --git a/galaxy.yml b/galaxy.yml
index 6c1df2bd..f7256159 100644
--- a/galaxy.yml
+++ b/galaxy.yml
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 ---
 namespace: community
 name: mysql
-version: 3.7.0
+version: 3.7.1
 readme: README.md
 authors:
   - Ansible community