diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 24509db..133e45d 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -7,6 +7,9 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 You should also add project tags for each release in Github, see [Managing releases in a repository](https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/releasing-projects-on-github/managing-releases-in-a-repository).
 
 ## [Unreleased]
+
+
+## [2.1.0] - 2025-06-09
 ### Changed
 - GitHub workflow for linting and formatting uses ruff as a separate job
 
diff --git a/docs/conf.py b/docs/conf.py
index 1980a01..2814749 100644
--- a/docs/conf.py
+++ b/docs/conf.py
@@ -18,12 +18,12 @@
 
 # -- Project information -----------------------------------------------------
 
-project = "testdoc"
-copyright = "2023, Luke Ruud"
+project = "cdstemplate"
+copyright = "2023, UMass Amherst Center for Data Science"
 author = "Luke Ruud"
 
 # The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags
-release = "0.1"
+release = "2.1.0"
 
 
 # -- General configuration ---------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/docs/index.rst b/docs/index.rst
index 7024bb2..eb95a5c 100644
--- a/docs/index.rst
+++ b/docs/index.rst
@@ -3,9 +3,14 @@
    You can adapt this file completely to your liking, but it should at least
    contain the root `toctree` directive.
 
-Welcome to testdoc's documentation!
+Welcome to cdstemplate's documentation!
 ===================================
+This is a sample python project template that has opinionated guidelines on
+how to set up a python module for data science projects with unit tests and Sphinx documentation.
 
+Autogenerated documentation for modules
+=======================================
+These are created from the python docstrings.
 
 .. automodule:: cdstemplate.word_count
     :members:
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index e7bc5e6..4d66ddf 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
 
 [project]
 name = "cdstemplate"
-version = "2.0.0"
+version = "2.1.0"
 description = "A template repo for data science and machine learning projects at UMass Center for Data Science."
 readme = "README.md"