diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index d43f44aea1..46fc115d81 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -2,6 +2,25 @@
 
 ## Current develop
 
+### Updated `hdf5` handling in the build
+
+### Fixed (Repair bugs, etc)
+
+### Added (new features/APIs/variables/...)
+
+### Changed (changing behavior/API/variables/...)
+
+### Fixed (not changing behavior/API/variables/...)
+
+### Infrastructure (changes irrelevant to downstream codes)
+
+### Removed (removing behavior/API/varaibles/...)
+
+### Added (modifiers with python bindings)
+
+## Release 1.6.2
+Date: 10/12/2022
+
 ### Updated `hdf5` handling in the build
 - [[PR181]](https://github.com/lanl/singularity-eos/pull/181) change from manual dependecy handling to using hdf5 interface targets
 
@@ -21,14 +40,6 @@
 - [[PR168]](https://github.com/lanl/singularity-eos/pull/168) move EOS files to header-only
 - [[PR167]](https://github.com/lanl/singularity-eos/pull/167) allow for the possiblity Kokkos version can't be inferred
 
-### Fixed (not changing behavior/API/variables/...)
-
-### Infrastructure (changes irrelevant to downstream codes)
-
-### Removed (removing behavior/API/varaibles/...)
-
-### Added (modifiers with python bindings)
-
 ## Release 1.6.1
 Date: 07/07/2022
 
diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 983ee3a6dc..d9b81b679d 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 
 cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.14)
 
-project(singularity-eos VERSION 1.6.1 LANGUAGES NONE)
+project(singularity-eos VERSION 1.6.2 LANGUAGES NONE)
 
 list(APPEND CMAKE_MODULE_PATH "${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/cmake")