diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 3e22e762a17bd37d4320e3f1a3015545f3266cc9..4ad545afd614249d603943b6394c7e063049d769 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -14,6 +14,17 @@ Releases
 This high level changelog is usually updated when a release is tagged.
 On the master branch there may be changes that are not (yet) described here.
 
+### 1.11.0
+
+* [+] allow to connect with empty password (and with smartcard instead of username)
+* [~] properly handle manipulations of resolv.conf
+* [+] support dns-suffix feature
+* [-] several codacy fixes
+* [+] Add smartcard support with openssl-engine
+* [-] correctly shift masks for cidr notation on MAC
+* [-] one-byte fix to build with lcc compiler
+* [-] pass space character as %20 instead of encoding it as '+'
+
 ### 1.10.0
 
 * [-] fix openssl 1.1.x compatibility issues
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index fa5c00cd4b45ad19f00f599cd0ec72546d12617d..2f705738a2fb3001e4fd3d5e89f426e95b6b4cf7 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # Process this file with autoconf to produce a configure script.
 
 AC_PREREQ([2.63])
-AC_INIT([openfortivpn], [1.10.0])
+AC_INIT([openfortivpn], [1.11.0])
 AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([src/main.c])
 AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([foreign subdir-objects])