diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md
index 5f06ad0d..0e023116 100644
--- a/CHANGES.md
+++ b/CHANGES.md
@@ -4,13 +4,19 @@ at https://github.com/ygrek/mldonkey/issues
 Changelog
 =========
 
+3.2.1 - 2024/08/19
+------------------
+
+* upgrade autoconf build system files
+* commit configure to git so that source archive is identical to the tag checkout
+* disable automatic invocation of autoconf
+
 3.2.0 - 2024/08/17
 ------------------
 
-NB
-* supported OCaml versions now are from 4.03 up to 4.14
-* local (in-the-tree) build of OCaml is not supported anymore, you must have OCaml installed to build
-* newgui2 build is finicky, see README.md for details (tl;dr system packaged OCaml and lablgtk2 or --enable-batch with OCaml 4.05)
+Supported OCaml versions now are from 4.03 up to 4.14, as a consequence local (in-the-tree) build of OCaml is not supported anymore, you must have OCaml installed to build.
+
+NB newgui2 build is finicky, see README.md for details (tl;dr system packaged OCaml and lablgtk2 or --enable-batch with OCaml 4.05)
 
 * fix duplicated Content-Length header (#82)
 * Support miniupnpc 2.2.8 (#101, Sergey Fedorov)
diff --git a/config/configure b/config/configure
index 0c328117..e3b41d46 100755
--- a/config/configure
+++ b/config/configure
@@ -2979,7 +2979,7 @@ cd config
 
 MAJOR_VERSION=3
 MINOR_VERSION=2
-SUB_VERSION=0   # range 0-7 due to eMule limitations
+SUB_VERSION=1   # range 0-7 due to eMule limitations
 
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diff --git a/config/configure.in b/config/configure.in
index aed47572..f2dd838b 100644
--- a/config/configure.in
+++ b/config/configure.in
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ cd config
 
 MAJOR_VERSION=3
 MINOR_VERSION=2
-SUB_VERSION=0   # range 0-7 due to eMule limitations
+SUB_VERSION=1   # range 0-7 due to eMule limitations
 
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