diff --git a/HISTORY.md b/HISTORY.md
index 18c2bda582..307f92a4d9 100644
--- a/HISTORY.md
+++ b/HISTORY.md
@@ -7,6 +7,18 @@ dev
 - \[Short description of non-trivial change.\]
 
 
+2.28.1 (2022-06-29)
+-------------------
+
+**Improvements**
+
+- Speed optimization in `iter_content` with transition to `yield from`. (#6170)
+
+**Dependencies**
+
+- Added support for chardet 5.0.0 (#6179)
+- Added support for charset-normalizer 2.1.0 (#6169)
+
 2.28.0 (2022-06-09)
 -------------------
 
diff --git a/requests/__version__.py b/requests/__version__.py
index cbb5c5cfde..e725ada655 100644
--- a/requests/__version__.py
+++ b/requests/__version__.py
@@ -5,8 +5,8 @@
 __title__ = "requests"
 __description__ = "Python HTTP for Humans."
 __url__ = "https://requests.readthedocs.io"
-__version__ = "2.28.0"
-__build__ = 0x022800
+__version__ = "2.28.1"
+__build__ = 0x022801
 __author__ = "Kenneth Reitz"
 __author_email__ = "me@kennethreitz.org"
 __license__ = "Apache 2.0"