diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index c11a5a4..e771295 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+## 3.1.1
+ - PNDA specific fix in order to make it compatible with the kafka output plugin
+
 ## 3.1.0
  - Introduce `tag_on_failure` option to tag events with `_avroparsefailure` instead of throwing an exception when decoding
 
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 778a3c0..db72f96 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ This, hopefully, temporary, plugin patches the Avro Codec in order to make it co
 ## Installation
 
 * Download a Github release
-* Install it with `bin/logstash-plugin install logstash-codec-pnda-avro-3.1.0-java.gem`
+* Install it with `bin/logstash-plugin install logstash-codec-pnda-avro-3.1.1-java.gem`
 
 ## Configuration
 
diff --git a/logstash-codec-pnda-avro.gemspec b/logstash-codec-pnda-avro.gemspec
index 9b8fdf2..f762156 100644
--- a/logstash-codec-pnda-avro.gemspec
+++ b/logstash-codec-pnda-avro.gemspec
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Gem::Specification.new do |s|
 
   s.name            = 'logstash-codec-pnda-avro'
-  s.version         = '3.1.0'
+  s.version         = '3.1.1'
   s.platform        = 'java'
   s.licenses        = ['Apache-2.0']
   s.summary         = "Encode and decode PNDA avro formatted data with https://github.com/logstash-plugins/logstash-codec-avro/pull/6 applied"