diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 00a3c86..dabe31a 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,3 +1,20 @@
+3.1
+- kas: Add support for authentication with gitlab CI
+- kas: Add NETRC_FILE to allow passing credentials into kas home
+- kas: for-all-repos: Add option to keep current env
+- kas: Avoid whitespace warnings when applying repo patches
+- kas: Use relative layer dirs to make build relocatable
+- kas: Allow "deleting" url/path of repo in override
+- kas: Fix repo-relative include file handling if no config file is given
+- kas: Fix include errors from repos defined via multiple yaml files
+- kas: Fix handling of -- separator in the absence of a config file
+- kas: Bundle kas-container script
+- kas-container: Add support for podman >= 4.1
+- kas-container: Add '--ssh-agent' option
+- kas-container: Add telnet to image
+- kas-container: Remove obsolete schroot mntpoint
+- kas-container: Reduce the image size a bit
+
 3.0.2
 - kas-container: Fix the fix for chatty sbuild-adduser in kas-isar
 
diff --git a/kas-container b/kas-container
index 54c4104..5b2871d 100755
--- a/kas-container
+++ b/kas-container
@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ run_clean() {
 	fi
 }
 
-KAS_IMAGE_VERSION_DEFAULT="3.0.2"
+KAS_IMAGE_VERSION_DEFAULT="3.1"
 KAS_CONTAINER_IMAGE_PATH_DEFAULT="ghcr.io/siemens/kas"
 KAS_CONTAINER_IMAGE_NAME_DEFAULT="kas"
 
diff --git a/kas/__version__.py b/kas/__version__.py
index 60bab95..cf3ffa3 100644
--- a/kas/__version__.py
+++ b/kas/__version__.py
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
 __license__ = 'MIT'
 __copyright__ = 'Copyright (c) Siemens AG, 2017-2020'
 
-__version__ = '3.0.2'
+__version__ = '3.1'
 
 # Please update docs/format-changelog.rst when changing the file version.
 __file_version__ = 12