diff --git a/python-xarray.changes b/python-xarray.changes
index 7902337..47e8f54 100644
--- a/python-xarray.changes
+++ b/python-xarray.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,63 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Wed Feb  2 19:56:06 UTC 2022 - Sebastian Wagner <sebix+novell.com@sebix.at>
+
+- - update to version 0.21.1:
+ - This is a bugfix release to resolve (:issue:`6216`, :pull:`6207`).:
+ - Bug fixes:
+  - Add `packaging` as a dependency to Xarray (:issue:`6216`, :pull:`6207`).
+    By `Sebastian Weigand <https://github.com/s-weigand>`_ and `Joe Hamman <https://github.com/jhamman>`_.
+
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Sat Jan 29 09:23:51 UTC 2022 - Sebastian Wagner <sebix+novell.com@sebix.at>
+
+- update to version 0.21.0:
+ - Many thanks to the 20 contributors to the v0.21.0 release!:
+ - Abel Aoun, Anderson Banihirwe, Ant Gib, Chris Roat, Cindy Chiao,:
+ - Deepak Cherian, Dominik Stańczak, Fabian Hofmann, Illviljan, Jody Klymak, Joseph:
+ - K Aicher, Mark Harfouche, Mathias Hauser, Matthew Roeschke, Maximilian Roos,:
+ - Michael Delgado, Pascal Bourgault, Pierre, Ray Bell, Romain Caneill, Tim Heap,:
+ - Tom Nicholas, Zeb Nicholls, joseph nowak, keewis.:
+ - New Features:
+  - New top-level function :py:func:`cross`. (:issue:`3279`, :pull:`5365`).
+    By `Jimmy Westling <https://github.com/illviljan>`_.
+  - ``keep_attrs`` support for :py:func:`where` (:issue:`4141`, :issue:`4682`, :pull:`4687`).
+    By `Justus Magin <https://github.com/keewis>`_.
+  - Enable the limit option for dask array in the following methods :py:meth:`DataArray.ffill`, :py:meth:`DataArray.bfill`, :py:meth:`Dataset.ffill` and :py:meth:`Dataset.bfill` (:issue:`6112`)
+    By `Joseph Nowak <https://github.com/josephnowak>`_.
+ - Breaking changes:
+  - Rely on matplotlib's default datetime converters instead of pandas' (:issue:`6102`, :pull:`6109`).
+    By `Jimmy Westling <https://github.com/illviljan>`_.
+  - Improve repr readability when there are a large number of dimensions in datasets or dataarrays by
+    wrapping the text once the maximum display width has been exceeded. (:issue:`5546`, :pull:`5662`)
+    By `Jimmy Westling <https://github.com/illviljan>`_.
+ - Deprecations:
+  - Removed the lock kwarg from the zarr and pydap backends, completing the deprecation cycle started in :issue:`5256`.
+    By `Tom Nicholas <https://github.com/TomNicholas>`_.
+  - Support for ``python 3.7`` has been dropped. (:pull:`5892`)
+    By `Jimmy Westling <https://github.com/illviljan>`_.
+ - Bug fixes:
+  - Preserve chunks when creating a :py:class:`DataArray` from another :py:class:`DataArray`
+    (:pull:`5984`). By `Fabian Hofmann <https://github.com/FabianHofmann>`_.
+  - Properly support :py:meth:`DataArray.ffill`, :py:meth:`DataArray.bfill`, :py:meth:`Dataset.ffill` and :py:meth:`Dataset.bfill` along chunked dimensions (:issue:`6112`).
+    By `Joseph Nowak <https://github.com/josephnowak>`_.
+  - Subclasses of ``byte`` and ``str`` (e.g. ``np.str_`` and ``np.bytes_``) will now serialise to disk rather than raising a ``ValueError: unsupported dtype for netCDF4 variable: object`` as they did previously (:pull:`5264`).
+    By `Zeb Nicholls <https://github.com/znicholls>`_.
+  - Fix applying function with non-xarray arguments using :py:func:`xr.map_blocks`.
+    By `Cindy Chiao <https://github.com/tcchiao>`_.
+  - No longer raise an error for an all-nan-but-one argument to
+    :py:meth:`DataArray.interpolate_na` when using `method='nearest'` (:issue:`5994`, :pull:`6144`).
+    By `Michael Delgado <https://github.com/delgadom>`_.
+  - `dt.season <https://xarray.pydata.org/en/stable/generated/xarray.DataArray.dt.season.html>`_  can now handle NaN and NaT.  (:pull:`5876`).
+    By `Pierre Loicq <https://github.com/pierreloicq>`_.
+  - Determination of zarr chunks handles empty lists for encoding chunks or variable chunks that occurs in certain cirumstances (:pull:`5526`). By `Chris Roat <https://github.com/chrisroat>`_.
+ - Internal Changes:
+  - Replace ``distutils.version`` with ``packaging.version``  (:issue:`6092`).
+    By `Mathias Hauser <https://github.com/mathause>`_.
+  - Removed internal checks for ``pd.Panel`` (:issue:`6145`).
+    By `Matthew Roeschke <https://github.com/mroeschke>`_.
+  - Add ``pyupgrade`` pre-commit hook (:pull:`6152`).
+    By `Maximilian Roos <https://github.com/max-sixty>`_.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Mon Jan 24 16:28:40 UTC 2022 - Ben Greiner <code@bnavigator.de>
 
diff --git a/python-xarray.spec b/python-xarray.spec
index c6e2b4d..e8fceff 100644
--- a/python-xarray.spec
+++ b/python-xarray.spec
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #
 # spec file for package python-xarray
 #
-# Copyright (c) 2021 SUSE LLC
+# Copyright (c) 2022 SUSE LLC
 #
 # All modifications and additions to the file contributed by third parties
 # remain the property of their copyright owners, unless otherwise agreed
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 %{?!python_module:%define python_module() python3-%{**}}
 %define         skip_python2 1
 Name:           python-xarray
-Version:        0.20.2
+Version:        0.21.1
 Release:        0
 Summary:        N-D labeled arrays and datasets in Python
 License:        Apache-2.0
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