diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index f20b8610..4974df1f 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -9,6 +9,20 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 
 ### Added
 
+### Changes
+
+### Deprecated
+
+### Removed
+
+### Fixed
+
+### Security
+
+## [0.42.0] - 2024-12-02
+
+### Added
+
 - add vocabulary and temporal unions and lookups to `mex.common.types`
 - add `mex.common.fields` with field type by class name lookups
 
@@ -18,18 +32,12 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 - set default empty rules to all of the rule-set models
 - pin pydantic to sub 2.10 (for now) because of breaking changes
 
-### Deprecated
-
-### Removed
-
 ### Fixed
 
 - switch HTTP method for preview endpoint to `POST`
 - add optional values to variadic values for distribution models
 - make `endpointDescription` optional for variadic access platform models
 
-### Security
-
 ## [0.41.0] - 2024-11-18
 
 ### Added
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 44840c4f..c9b22481 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [project]
 name = "mex-common"
-version = "0.41.0"
+version = "0.42.0"
 description = "Common library for MEx python projects."
 authors = [{ name = "MEx Team", email = "mex@rki.de" }]
 readme = { file = "README.md", content-type = "text/markdown" }