diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md
index 1bf9514ac2dfdbe9c5660648ac622b7d94543153..f371f756de61d08603b7832210f50eccd33a9f2b 100644
--- a/CHANGES.md
+++ b/CHANGES.md
@@ -1,3 +1,22 @@
+Synapse 1.30.1 (2021-03-26)
+===========================
+
+This is a security release to ensure that Synapse is running with a
+`cryptography` package built against a patched version of OpenSSL.
+
+
+Updates to the Docker image
+---------------------------
+
+- Ensure that the docker container has up to date versions of openssl. ([\#9697](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/9697))
+
+
+Internal Changes
+----------------
+
+- Enforce that `cryptography` dependency is up to date to ensure it has the most recent openssl patches. ([\#9697](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/9697))
+
+
 Synapse 1.30.0 (2021-03-22)
 ===========================
 
diff --git a/changelog.d/9697.docker b/changelog.d/9697.docker
deleted file mode 100644
index fb06ef6c48110947c8aef50d44df9ab1932fe932..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/changelog.d/9697.docker
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Ensure that the docker container has up to date versions of openssl.
diff --git a/changelog.d/9697.misc b/changelog.d/9697.misc
deleted file mode 100644
index e4866b01fa778bc080e732d5755b2bb31b0a3749..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/changelog.d/9697.misc
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Enforce that `cryptography` dependency is up to date to ensure it has the most recent openssl patches.
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index e6b2122d6fc6f86d86d354065b71398f9f71b269..18dc04cd8216d25227b72518dbc695b371e28f4f 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+matrix-synapse-py3 (1.30.1) stable; urgency=medium
+
+  * New synapse release 1.30.1.
+
+ -- Synapse Packaging team <packages@matrix.org>  Fri, 26 Mar 2021 12:01:28 +0000
+
 matrix-synapse-py3 (1.30.0) stable; urgency=medium
 
   * New synapse release 1.30.0.
diff --git a/synapse/__init__.py b/synapse/__init__.py
index 8e57739cd2bdcfedd861885a36e74275a0941530..c9bc8fb9e9ace72d1424aa8eeea78faa479b4f3f 100644
--- a/synapse/__init__.py
+++ b/synapse/__init__.py
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ try:
 except ImportError:
     pass
 
-__version__ = "1.30.0"
+__version__ = "1.30.1"
 
 if bool(os.environ.get("SYNAPSE_TEST_PATCH_LOG_CONTEXTS", False)):
     # We import here so that we don't have to install a bunch of deps when