diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index c1004421d6..7628fadcd7 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -2,6 +2,37 @@
 
 All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 
+## [8.28.1](https://github.com/openvoxproject/openvox/tree/8.28.1) (2026-07-06)
+
+[Full Changelog](https://github.com/openvoxproject/openvox/compare/8.28.0...8.28.1)
+
+**Fixed bugs:**
+
+- \[Bug\]: ca\_refresh\_interval is not respected — agent refreshes CA on every run when server responds 304 [\#435](https://github.com/OpenVoxProject/openvox/issues/435)
+- \[Bug\]: Puppet 8 introduced a regex node definition regression [\#14](https://github.com/OpenVoxProject/openvox/issues/14)
+- \[Backport 8.x\] Update ca\_last\_update/crl\_last\_update on HTTP 304 [\#526](https://github.com/OpenVoxProject/openvox/pull/526) ([OpenVoxProjectBot](https://github.com/OpenVoxProjectBot))
+- \[Backport 8.x\] Copy input mtime to files generated by puppet generate types [\#523](https://github.com/OpenVoxProject/openvox/pull/523) ([OpenVoxProjectBot](https://github.com/OpenVoxProjectBot))
+- \[Backport 8.x\] Fix regex node lookup regression from PUP-11515 [\#515](https://github.com/OpenVoxProject/openvox/pull/515) ([OpenVoxProjectBot](https://github.com/OpenVoxProjectBot))
+- \[Backport 8.x\] Tolerate concurrent creation of directories [\#507](https://github.com/OpenVoxProject/openvox/pull/507) ([OpenVoxProjectBot](https://github.com/OpenVoxProjectBot))
+
+**Closed issues:**
+
+- \[Deprecation\] `Puppet::SSL::Certificate` Class [\#344](https://github.com/OpenVoxProject/openvox/issues/344)
+- \[Deprecation\] PAL Script Evaluation APIs [\#343](https://github.com/OpenVoxProject/openvox/issues/343)
+- \[Deprecation\] `source_permissions` File Parameter [\#340](https://github.com/OpenVoxProject/openvox/issues/340)
+- \[Deprecation\] `pluginsync` Setting [\#339](https://github.com/OpenVoxProject/openvox/issues/339)
+- \[Deprecation\] `configprint` Setting [\#337](https://github.com/OpenVoxProject/openvox/issues/337)
+- \[Deprecation\] `regsubst()` Encoding Argument [\#336](https://github.com/OpenVoxProject/openvox/issues/336)
+
+**Merged pull requests:**
+
+- Promote puppet-resource\_api 1.9.2 into 8.x [\#527](https://github.com/OpenVoxProject/openvox/pull/527) ([OpenVoxProjectBot](https://github.com/OpenVoxProjectBot))
+- Promote puppet-resource\_api 1.9.1 into 8.x [\#518](https://github.com/OpenVoxProject/openvox/pull/518) ([OpenVoxProjectBot](https://github.com/OpenVoxProjectBot))
+- \[Backport 8.x\] Fix handling of Puppet::Pops serialization issues [\#514](https://github.com/OpenVoxProject/openvox/pull/514) ([OpenVoxProjectBot](https://github.com/OpenVoxProjectBot))
+- Promote puppet-runtime 2026.06.24.1 into 8.x [\#501](https://github.com/OpenVoxProject/openvox/pull/501) ([OpenVoxProjectBot](https://github.com/OpenVoxProjectBot))
+- Add arm64 support to acceptance 8.x [\#499](https://github.com/OpenVoxProject/openvox/pull/499) ([jpartlow](https://github.com/jpartlow))
+- Add jruby 9.4.15 to CI [\#487](https://github.com/OpenVoxProject/openvox/pull/487) ([bastelfreak](https://github.com/bastelfreak))
+
 ## [8.28.0](https://github.com/openvoxproject/openvox/tree/8.28.0) (2026-06-10)
 
 [Full Changelog](https://github.com/openvoxproject/openvox/compare/8.27.0...8.28.0)
diff --git a/lib/puppet/version.rb b/lib/puppet/version.rb
index 0fc92d603a..98c13ff4cf 100644
--- a/lib/puppet/version.rb
+++ b/lib/puppet/version.rb
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 # Raketasks and such to set the version based on the output of `git describe`
 
 module Puppet
-  PUPPETVERSION = '8.28.0'
+  PUPPETVERSION = '8.28.1'
   IMPLEMENTATION = 'openvox'
 
   ##