diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index d8731352..5e7b18cb 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 Pyxform Changelog
 
+# v1.10.1, 2022-06-24
+* avoid processing vast empty areas of buggy / strange workbooks by @lindsay-stevens in https://github.com/XLSForm/pyxform/pull/612
+
 # v1.10.0, 2022-04-25
 
 * https://github.com/XLSForm/pyxform/pull/578 Add a lexer to identify dynamic defaults in expressions vs. strings
diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index 17e811d4..9ad68415 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 ===============
-pyxform v1.10.0
+pyxform v1.10.1
 ===============
 
 |python| |black|
diff --git a/pyxform/__init__.py b/pyxform/__init__.py
index 01389371..fd65499c 100644
--- a/pyxform/__init__.py
+++ b/pyxform/__init__.py
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 Collect easy.
 """
 
-__version__ = "1.10.0"
+__version__ = "1.10.1"
 
 from pyxform.builder import (
     SurveyElementBuilder,
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index c0c6c9db..6c79a3c1 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 
 setup(
     name="pyxform",
-    version="1.10.0",
+    version="1.10.1",
     author="github.com/xlsform",
     author_email="info@xlsform.org",
     packages=find_packages(exclude=["tests", "tests.*"]),