diff --git a/.release-please-manifest.json b/.release-please-manifest.json
index 2d6b6542b29..498f9333ddf 100644
--- a/.release-please-manifest.json
+++ b/.release-please-manifest.json
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 {
-  ".": "2.1.0",
+  ".": "2.2.0",
   "keptn-cert-manager": "2.2.1",
   "runtimes/python-runtime": "1.0.6",
   "runtimes/deno-runtime": "2.0.5",
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index e7d0c06439b..940baaf7f01 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,30 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## [2.2.0](https://github.com/keptn/lifecycle-toolkit/compare/keptn-v2.1.0...keptn-v2.2.0) (2024-08-27)
+
+
+### Features
+
+* **metrics-operator:** introduce insecureSkipTlsVerify parameter ([#3711](https://github.com/keptn/lifecycle-toolkit/issues/3711)) ([c51c5e4](https://github.com/keptn/lifecycle-toolkit/commit/c51c5e406cefef87dc1f22daf1555fe8ecb70158))
+
+
+### Other
+
+* bump helm chart version ([#3665](https://github.com/keptn/lifecycle-toolkit/issues/3665)) ([ff62ede](https://github.com/keptn/lifecycle-toolkit/commit/ff62ede9f55f9545f98ceb1e7d8122478fa7033e))
+* release lifecycle-operator 1.1.1 ([#3664](https://github.com/keptn/lifecycle-toolkit/issues/3664)) ([e688c73](https://github.com/keptn/lifecycle-toolkit/commit/e688c73853f3136a2e2646be85a31a2a67caa0dc))
+* release metrics-operator 1.1.0 ([#3661](https://github.com/keptn/lifecycle-toolkit/issues/3661)) ([24191f8](https://github.com/keptn/lifecycle-toolkit/commit/24191f8024c75582f0936226fe6ad5671d0dc7d7))
+
+
+### Dependency Updates
+
+* update actions/upload-artifact action to v4.3.6 ([#3670](https://github.com/keptn/lifecycle-toolkit/issues/3670)) ([0d5c60f](https://github.com/keptn/lifecycle-toolkit/commit/0d5c60f48fac850dedbab72ebf6be17636bb76c5))
+* update anchore/sbom-action action to v0.17.2 ([#3687](https://github.com/keptn/lifecycle-toolkit/issues/3687)) ([2484e49](https://github.com/keptn/lifecycle-toolkit/commit/2484e495594de62d970a263d2b86ff9738c9e3e4))
+* update checkmarx/kics-github-action action to v2.1.2 ([#3688](https://github.com/keptn/lifecycle-toolkit/issues/3688)) ([8178ac5](https://github.com/keptn/lifecycle-toolkit/commit/8178ac5c8146b0b01f95854d44146e4903101026))
+* update dependency mkdocs-git-revision-date-localized-plugin to v1.2.7 ([#3690](https://github.com/keptn/lifecycle-toolkit/issues/3690)) ([c2fc3b6](https://github.com/keptn/lifecycle-toolkit/commit/c2fc3b69ff402d383eac9365999222e0f4e118d6))
+* update dependency mkdocs-include-markdown-plugin to v6.2.2 ([#3691](https://github.com/keptn/lifecycle-toolkit/issues/3691)) ([759443a](https://github.com/keptn/lifecycle-toolkit/commit/759443a181dae03ca8066b4dcf5574e1b23f114d))
+* update sigstore/cosign-installer action to v3.6.0 ([#3706](https://github.com/keptn/lifecycle-toolkit/issues/3706)) ([29e1614](https://github.com/keptn/lifecycle-toolkit/commit/29e16143218d9bec85af039595a90ebfbc402ee2))
+* update squidfunk/mkdocs-material to v9.5.33 (patch) ([#3697](https://github.com/keptn/lifecycle-toolkit/issues/3697)) ([605ebe1](https://github.com/keptn/lifecycle-toolkit/commit/605ebe16323e75744a5119da1b2099ca892d2bb7))
+
 ## [2.1.0](https://github.com/keptn/lifecycle-toolkit/compare/keptn-v2.0.0...keptn-v2.1.0) (2024-08-06)
 
 
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index ed1b08a5326..df765e3b601 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 # renovate: datasource=github-tags depName=kubernetes-sigs/kustomize
 KUSTOMIZE_VERSION?=v5.4.3
-CHART_APPVERSION ?= v2.1.0 # x-release-please-version
+CHART_APPVERSION ?= v2.2.0 # x-release-please-version
 
 # renovate: datasource=docker depName=cytopia/yamllint
 YAMLLINT_VERSION ?= alpine
diff --git a/chart/Chart.yaml b/chart/Chart.yaml
index 561a752d72d..1438a7f6657 100644
--- a/chart/Chart.yaml
+++ b/chart/Chart.yaml
@@ -34,8 +34,8 @@ annotations:
   artifacthub.io/operatorCapabilities: Full Lifecycle
 kubeVersion: '>= 1.24.0-0'
 type: application
-version: 0.7.0
-appVersion: v2.1.0 # x-release-please-version
+version: 2.2.0
+appVersion: v2.1.0
 dependencies:
   - name: keptn-cert-manager
     version: 0.2.5
diff --git a/docs/docs/getting-started/observability.md b/docs/docs/getting-started/observability.md
index ec878586d36..a66e8e5eacf 100644
--- a/docs/docs/getting-started/observability.md
+++ b/docs/docs/getting-started/observability.md
@@ -333,10 +333,10 @@ Create some Keptn Grafana dashboards that will be available when Grafana is inst
 <!---x-release-please-start-version-->
 ```shell
 kubectl create ns monitoring
-kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/keptn/lifecycle-toolkit/keptn-v2.1.0/examples/support/observability/config/prometheus/grafana-config.yaml
-kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/keptn/lifecycle-toolkit/keptn-v2.1.0/examples/support/observability/config/prometheus/grafana-dashboard-keptn-applications.yaml
-kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/keptn/lifecycle-toolkit/keptn-v2.1.0/examples/support/observability/config/prometheus/grafana-dashboard-keptn-overview.yaml
-kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/keptn/lifecycle-toolkit/keptn-v2.1.0/examples/support/observability/config/prometheus/grafana-dashboard-keptn-workloads.yaml
+kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/keptn/lifecycle-toolkit/keptn-v2.2.0/examples/support/observability/config/prometheus/grafana-config.yaml
+kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/keptn/lifecycle-toolkit/keptn-v2.2.0/examples/support/observability/config/prometheus/grafana-dashboard-keptn-applications.yaml
+kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/keptn/lifecycle-toolkit/keptn-v2.2.0/examples/support/observability/config/prometheus/grafana-dashboard-keptn-overview.yaml
+kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/keptn/lifecycle-toolkit/keptn-v2.2.0/examples/support/observability/config/prometheus/grafana-dashboard-keptn-workloads.yaml
 ```
 <!---x-release-please-end-->