diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 353fceb..9d0db51 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,3 +1,14 @@
+2.2
+- kas: allow extra bitbake arguments to be passed
+- kas: add --force-checkout and --update arguments to ease CI usage
+- kas: allow for layer-free repositories
+- kas: fix cloning of repos without default branch
+- kas: enable standard-conforming .yaml file extensions
+- kas-docker: enhance with podman support
+- kas-docker: switch to /bin/bash as SHELL per default
+- config: Allow a default refspec to be specified
+- config: Allow a default repo to be specified for patches
+
 2.1.1
 - repos: Silence pycodestyle error (that broke docker image generation)
 
diff --git a/kas-docker b/kas-docker
index 1bc3417..b31b29b 100755
--- a/kas-docker
+++ b/kas-docker
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ trace()
 }
 
 if [ -z "${KAS_IMAGE_VERSION}" ]; then
-	KAS_IMAGE_VERSION="2.1.1"
+	KAS_IMAGE_VERSION="2.2"
 fi
 
 DOCKER_IMAGE=kasproject/kas:${KAS_IMAGE_VERSION}
diff --git a/kas/__version__.py b/kas/__version__.py
index 684c085..44a9074 100644
--- a/kas/__version__.py
+++ b/kas/__version__.py
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
 __license__ = 'MIT'
 __copyright__ = 'Copyright (c) Siemens AG, 2017-2018'
 
-__version__ = '2.1.1'
+__version__ = '2.2'
 
 # Please update docs/format-changelog.rst when changing the file version.
 __file_version__ = 9