diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
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@@ -1,3 +1,22 @@
+## [v2.31.1](https://github.com/docling-project/docling/releases/tag/v2.31.1) - 2025-05-12
+
+### Fix
+
+* Add smoldocling in download utils ([#1577](https://github.com/docling-project/docling/issues/1577)) ([`127e386`](https://github.com/docling-project/docling/commit/127e38646fd7f23fcda0e392e756fe27f123bd78))
+* **HTML:** Handle row spans in header rows ([#1536](https://github.com/docling-project/docling/issues/1536)) ([`776e7ec`](https://github.com/docling-project/docling/commit/776e7ecf9ac93d62c66b03f33e5c8560e81b6fb3))
+* Mime error in document streams ([#1523](https://github.com/docling-project/docling/issues/1523)) ([`f1658ed`](https://github.com/docling-project/docling/commit/f1658edbad5c7205bb457322d2c89f7f4d8a4659))
+* Usage of hashlib for FIPS ([#1512](https://github.com/docling-project/docling/issues/1512)) ([`7c70573`](https://github.com/docling-project/docling/commit/7c705739f9db1cfc6c0a502fd5ba8b2093376d7f))
+* Guard against attribute errors in TesseractOcrModel __del__ ([#1494](https://github.com/docling-project/docling/issues/1494)) ([`4ab7e9d`](https://github.com/docling-project/docling/commit/4ab7e9ddfb9d8fd0abc483efb70e701447a602c5))
+* Enable cuda_use_flash_attention2 for PictureDescriptionVlmModel ([#1496](https://github.com/docling-project/docling/issues/1496)) ([`cc45396`](https://github.com/docling-project/docling/commit/cc453961a9196c79f6428305b9007402e448f300))
+* Updated the time-recorder label for reading order ([#1490](https://github.com/docling-project/docling/issues/1490)) ([`976e92e`](https://github.com/docling-project/docling/commit/976e92e289a414b6b70c3e3ca37a60c85fa12535))
+* Incorrect scaling of TableModel bboxes when do_cell_matching is False ([#1459](https://github.com/docling-project/docling/issues/1459)) ([`94d66a0`](https://github.com/docling-project/docling/commit/94d66a076559c4e48017bd619508cfeef104079b))
+
+### Documentation
+
+* Update links in data_prep_kit ([#1559](https://github.com/docling-project/docling/issues/1559)) ([`844babb`](https://github.com/docling-project/docling/commit/844babb39034b39d9c4edcc3f145684991cda174))
+* Add serialization docs, update chunking docs ([#1556](https://github.com/docling-project/docling/issues/1556)) ([`3220a59`](https://github.com/docling-project/docling/commit/3220a592e720174940a3b958555f90352d7320d8))
+* Update supported formats guide ([#1463](https://github.com/docling-project/docling/issues/1463)) ([`3afbe6c`](https://github.com/docling-project/docling/commit/3afbe6c9695d52cf6ed8b48b2f403df7d53342e5))
+
 ## [v2.31.0](https://github.com/docling-project/docling/releases/tag/v2.31.0) - 2025-04-25
 
 ### Feature
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
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+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [tool.poetry]
 name = "docling"
-version = "2.31.0"  # DO NOT EDIT, updated automatically
+version = "2.31.1"  # DO NOT EDIT, updated automatically
 description = "SDK and CLI for parsing PDF, DOCX, HTML, and more, to a unified document representation for powering downstream workflows such as gen AI applications."
 authors = [
   "Christoph Auer <cau@zurich.ibm.com>",