diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index b984736e0..413615bdb 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## version 2.56.1 - 2024/08/22
+
+
 * Fix bug where app crashed if measurements JSON did not define thresholds ([#1802](https://github.com/nextstrain/auspice/pull/1802))
 * Fix bug where measurements display did not honor the default `measurements_display` ([#1802](https://github.com/nextstrain/auspice/pull/1802))
 * Only display download-JSON button if the dataset name can be parsed from pathname ([#1804](https://github.com/nextstrain/auspice/pull/1804))
diff --git a/package-lock.json b/package-lock.json
index 0fce515bd..b8a83351a 100644
--- a/package-lock.json
+++ b/package-lock.json
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 {
   "name": "auspice",
-  "version": "2.56.0",
+  "version": "2.56.1",
   "lockfileVersion": 2,
   "requires": true,
   "packages": {
     "": {
       "name": "auspice",
-      "version": "2.56.0",
+      "version": "2.56.1",
       "license": "AGPL-3.0-only",
       "dependencies": {
         "@babel/core": "^7.3.4",
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 4f4597145..01b99714a 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "auspice",
-  "version": "2.56.0",
+  "version": "2.56.1",
   "description": "Web app for visualizing pathogen evolution",
   "author": "James Hadfield, Trevor Bedford and Richard Neher",
   "license": "AGPL-3.0-only",
diff --git a/src/version.js b/src/version.js
index b19113fd6..af12c8d72 100644
--- a/src/version.js
+++ b/src/version.js
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-const version = "2.56.0";
+const version = "2.56.1";
 
 module.exports = {
   version