diff --git a/PKG-INFO b/PKG-INFO
index ef6cace8b..c03b86591 100644
--- a/PKG-INFO
+++ b/PKG-INFO
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Metadata-Version: 1.1
 Name: ProDy
-Version: 2.1.2
+Version: 2.2.0
 Summary: A Python Package for Protein Dynamics Analysis
 Home-page: http://www.csb.pitt.edu/ProDy
 Author: James Krieger, She Zhang, Hongchun Li, Cihan Kaya, Ahmet Bakan, and others
diff --git a/docs/release/v2.1_series.rst b/docs/release/v2.1_series.rst
index 6c9cdaa97..7897855fe 100644
--- a/docs/release/v2.1_series.rst
+++ b/docs/release/v2.1_series.rst
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-ProDy 2.0 Series
+ProDy 2.1 Series
 ===============================================================================
 
 .. contents::
diff --git a/docs/release/v2.2_series.rst b/docs/release/v2.2_series.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..b8cc7f4d5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/release/v2.2_series.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+ProDy 2.2 Series
+===============================================================================
+
+.. contents::
+   :local:
+
+2.2.0 (May 19, 2022)
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+**Bug Fixes and Improvements**:
+
+  * Updates to :function:`.parseScipionModes`` to use sqlite and xmd metadata files 
+  and handle eigenvalues
+
+  * Actual fix to logging so LOGGER.progress doesn't override logging level
+
+  * Updates to the PCA app to better handle number of modes for Scipion 
+
+  * New arguments sparse, kdtree and turbo for :class:`.ClustENM`, allowing 
+  better control of ANM calculations.
+
+  * Another bug fix for mmCIF header parsing
+
+  * Bug fix for parsing CONECT bond records from PDB files
+
+**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/prody/ProDy/compare/v2.1.2...v2.2.0
diff --git a/prody/__init__.py b/prody/__init__.py
index 479b0377b..5e0bdfe7c 100644
--- a/prody/__init__.py
+++ b/prody/__init__.py
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 """ProDy is a package for Protein Dynamics, Sequence, and Structure Analysis"""
 
-__version__ = '2.1.2'
+__version__ = '2.2.0'
 __release__ = __version__ # + '-dev' # comment out '-dev' before a release
 
 import sys