diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 3e00a6651e5e00265871957a8ed6fe671bcda3bb..73a09234a003811e3f6b1da504601fbc1c1c9863 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,6 +1,15 @@
 # All notable changes will be documented in this file
 
-## [0.6.8] 2020-05-21
+## [1.0.0] 2020-07-06
+
+Version 1.0 release of bilby
+
+### Changes
+- Minor bug fixes and typo changes only from 0.6.9, see
+git.ligo.org/lscsoft/bilby/-/merge_requests?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&state=merged&milestone_title=1.0.0
+for details
+
+## [0.6.9] 2020-05-21
 ### Changes
 - Improvement to the proposal step in dynesty (!774)
 - Fix a bug in checking and making directories (!792)
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index d79d44655893308ce4612f2d7591bae58fd33291..0203658d6986ca210bf73b57b815e100aca95613 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ def readfile(filename):
     return filecontents
 
 
-VERSION = '0.6.9'
+VERSION = '1.0.0'
 version_file = write_version_file(VERSION)
 long_description = get_long_description()