diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..09830c34b9bc77889057f6259dec5b87b8f037ef
--- /dev/null
+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+Changes in Release 0.1
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ * initial setup of the CMake build system
+ * first idea of the documentation system
+ * meld included from SMNG as first module (to be modified/ renamed)
diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 200c0c86de080b42dfd0ec167faa49b8c29a9e77..d9c43f5fa0e451ed8abe8fe1c767ba23045835b2 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ project(PROMOD3 CXX C)
 include(PROMOD3)
 
 set(PROMOD3_VERSION_MAJOR 0)
-set(PROMOD3_VERSION_MINOR 0)
+set(PROMOD3_VERSION_MINOR 1)
 set(PROMOD3_VERSION_PATCH 0)
 set(PROMOD3_VERSION_STRING ${PROMOD3_VERSION_MAJOR}.${PROMOD3_VERSION_MINOR}.${PROMOD3_VERSION_PATCH})