diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 7823b1fb..858d74c7 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+## [1.21.1](https://github.com/ajgon/opsworks_ruby/compare/v1.21.0...v1.21.1) (2021-10-13)
+
+
+### Bug Fixes
+
+* modify the restart process for puma so that it can do a proper restart instead of killing and restarting the app ([#257](https://github.com/ajgon/opsworks_ruby/issues/257)) ([035ffb9](https://github.com/ajgon/opsworks_ruby/commit/035ffb9f286187a323c2b77b7fa15f5b89d52b71))
+
+
+
 # [1.21.0](https://github.com/ajgon/opsworks_ruby/compare/v1.20.3...v1.21.0) (2021-10-08)
 
 
diff --git a/docs/attributes.md b/docs/attributes.md
index 5f9eec19..0ccebf51 100644
--- a/docs/attributes.md
+++ b/docs/attributes.md
@@ -390,12 +390,12 @@ Configuration parameters for the ruby application server. Currently `Puma`, `Thi
     - **Default:** `false`
     - Creates a `.env` file with all pre-configured environment variables. Useful for gems like [dotenv](https://github.com/bkeepers/dotenv)
 
--   `app['appserver']['preload_app']`
+- `app['appserver']['preload_app']`
     - **Supported values:** `true`, `false`
     - **Default:** `true`
     - Enabling this preloads an application before forking worker processes.
 
--   `app['appserver']['timeout']`
+- `app['appserver']['timeout']`
     - **Default:** `50`
     - Sets the timeout of worker processes to seconds.
 
@@ -403,7 +403,7 @@ Configuration parameters for the ruby application server. Currently `Puma`, `Thi
     - **Default:** `4`
     - Sets the current number of worker processes. Each worker process will serve exactly one client at a time.
 
--  `app['appserver']['passenger_version']`
+- `app['appserver']['passenger_version']`
     - **Default:** None
     - Which Debian APT package version should be installed from the PPA repo provided by Passenger. Currently this
       defaults to the latest version provided by the Passenger APT PPA. Set this to a non-nil value to lock your
@@ -415,6 +415,10 @@ Configuration parameters for the ruby application server. Currently `Puma`, `Thi
     without a web server middleware or separating the web server into its own container or server.
     This can also be used for running multiple applications on a server when using apache as your webserver.
 
+- `app['appserver']['monit_template_cookbook']`
+    - **Default** `opsworks_ruby`
+    - The name of the cookbook from which the appserver monit template(s) will be drawn.
+
 #### unicorn
 
 - [`app['appserver']['backlog']`](https://yhbt.net/unicorn/Unicorn/Configurator.html#method-i-listen)
@@ -505,10 +509,6 @@ Configuration parameters for the ruby application server. Currently `Puma`, `Thi
     - **Default:** 100
     - Sets the `MaxRequestQueueSize` parameter
 
-- `app['appserver']['monit_template_cookbook']`
-    - **Default** `opsworks_ruby`
-    - The name of the cookbook from which the worker monit template(s) will be drawn.
-
 - `app['appserver']['error_document']`
     - **Type:** Hash
     - **Default:** off
diff --git a/docs/changelog.md b/docs/changelog.md
index 2222699c..3597f502 100644
--- a/docs/changelog.md
+++ b/docs/changelog.md
@@ -1,6 +1,13 @@
-# Changelog
+## [1.21.1](https://github.com/ajgon/opsworks_ruby/compare/v1.21.0...v1.21.1) (2021-10-13)
 
-# [1.21.0](https://github.com/ajgon/opsworks_ruby/compare/v1.20.3...v1.21.0) (2021-10-08)
+
+### Bug Fixes
+
+* modify the restart process for puma so that it can do a proper restart instead of killing and restarting the app ([#257](https://github.com/ajgon/opsworks_ruby/issues/257)) ([035ffb9](https://github.com/ajgon/opsworks_ruby/commit/035ffb9f286187a323c2b77b7fa15f5b89d52b71))
+
+
+
+## [1.21.0](https://github.com/ajgon/opsworks_ruby/compare/v1.20.3...v1.21.0) (2021-10-08)
 
 
 ### Bug Fixes
diff --git a/metadata.rb b/metadata.rb
index db1d9359..462d7e29 100644
--- a/metadata.rb
+++ b/metadata.rb
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 license 'MIT'
 description 'Set of chef recipes for OpsWorks based Ruby projects'
 long_description File.read(File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), 'README.md'))
-version '1.21.0'
+version '1.21.1'
 chef_version '>= 12.0' if respond_to?(:chef_version)
 
 depends 'apt', '< 7.0'
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 1b4ea54d..409dceca 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "opsworks_ruby",
-  "version": "1.21.0",
+  "version": "1.21.1",
   "description": "Set of chef recipes for OpsWorks based Ruby projects.",
   "dependencies": {},
   "devDependencies": {