diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 2e6cc35dc..1fafa6d46 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -4,6 +4,13 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file. This projec
 adheres to [PEP 440](https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0440/) versioning schema, and
 the changelog itself conforms to [Keep A Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/).
 
+## v9.1.1 (2024-01-16)
+
+### Fix
+
+-   don't fail in systems with windows 1252 encoding (probably)
+-   skip excluded paths before rendering
+
 ## v9.1.0 (2023-11-27)
 
 ### Feat
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 3dab5c76a..e4b4054d8 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ annotated_tag = true
 changelog_incremental = true
 tag_format = "v$version"
 update_changelog_on_bump = true
-version = "9.1.0"
+version = "9.1.1"
 
 [build-system]
 requires = ["poetry-core>=1.7.0", "poetry-dynamic-versioning>=1.1.0"]