diff --git a/.bumpversion.cfg b/.bumpversion.cfg
index be7b59943..2fadf2255 100644
--- a/.bumpversion.cfg
+++ b/.bumpversion.cfg
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 [bumpversion]
-current_version = 0.21.1
+current_version = 0.22.0
 commit = True
 tag = True
 
diff --git a/CITATION.cff b/CITATION.cff
index b6692ed5d..968e39cb2 100644
--- a/CITATION.cff
+++ b/CITATION.cff
@@ -8,5 +8,5 @@ authors:
     orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6349-818X
 title: "dfm_tools: A Python package for pre- and postprocessing D-FlowFM model input and output files"
 type: software
-version: 0.21.1
+version: 0.22.0
 doi: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7857393
diff --git a/dfm_tools/__init__.py b/dfm_tools/__init__.py
index 95ad4f952..f9d026738 100644
--- a/dfm_tools/__init__.py
+++ b/dfm_tools/__init__.py
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
 __author__ = """Jelmer Veenstra"""
 __email__ = "jelmer.veenstra@deltares.nl"
-__version__ = "0.21.1"
+__version__ = "0.22.0"
 
 from dfm_tools.deprecated import *
 from dfm_tools.download import *
diff --git a/docs/whats-new.md b/docs/whats-new.md
index 57f8b5226..cc060996d 100644
--- a/docs/whats-new.md
+++ b/docs/whats-new.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-## UNRELEASED
+## 0.22.0 (2024-04-09)
 
 ### Feat
 - generate kml file from ssh_catalog (`geopandas.GeoDataFrame`) with `dfmt.ssh_catalog_tokmlfile()` in [#809](https://github.com/Deltares/dfm_tools/pull/809)
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index ac6d350bf..5a1720879 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
 
 [project]
 name = "dfm_tools"
-version = "0.21.1"
+version = "0.22.0"
 maintainers = [{ name = "Jelmer Veenstra", email = "jelmer.veenstra@deltares.nl" }]
 description = "dfm_tools are pre- and post-processing tools for Delft3D FM"
 readme = "README.md"