From 660747382a6f75a3ff946ec943317bdd9f3f853f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: petermeisrimelmodelon <peter.meisrimel@modelon.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2026 09:32:18 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] chore: 2.21.0 release prep

---
 CHANGELOG                       |  2 ++
 doc/sphinx/source/changelog.rst | 11 +++++++++++
 doc/sphinx/source/conf.py       |  4 ++--
 3 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
index e98dbc99..ab114744 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 --- CHANGELOG ---
 --- PyFMI-FUTURE ---
+
+--- PyFMI-2.21.0 ---
     * Fixed a crash with the `Master` algorithm option `block_initialization`.
     * Fixed a result handling issue for `dynamic_diagnostics = True` and `["<solver>_options"]["clock_step"] = False`.
     * Fixed an issue for the `Master` algorithm where connection values could be initialized incorrectly, when FMUs 
diff --git a/doc/sphinx/source/changelog.rst b/doc/sphinx/source/changelog.rst
index ef3e1e4d..2d6cd218 100644
--- a/doc/sphinx/source/changelog.rst
+++ b/doc/sphinx/source/changelog.rst
@@ -2,6 +2,17 @@
 ==========
 Changelog
 ==========
+--- PyFMI-2.21.0 ---
+    * Fixed a crash with the `Master` algorithm option `block_initialization`.
+    * Fixed a result handling issue for `dynamic_diagnostics = True` and `["<solver>_options"]["clock_step"] = False`.
+    * Fixed an issue for the `Master` algorithm where connection values could be initialized incorrectly, when FMUs 
+      were initialized separately and using `step_size_downsampling_factor`.
+    * Enabled use of `pathlib.Path` objects for:
+        * Paths when loading FMUs
+        * `log_file_name` when loading FMUs
+        * `pyfmi.common.log.parse_xml_log` & `extract_xml_log`, including `fmu.extract_xml_log()`.
+        * `result_file_name` as simulation option and manual use of `ResultReader` classes
+
 --- PyFMI-2.20.1 ---
     * Resolved issue where caching in result handling was too persistent and could prevent automatic garbage collection.
 
diff --git a/doc/sphinx/source/conf.py b/doc/sphinx/source/conf.py
index 6e0a7eb0..52912028 100644
--- a/doc/sphinx/source/conf.py
+++ b/doc/sphinx/source/conf.py
@@ -51,9 +51,9 @@
 # built documents.
 #
 # The short X.Y version.
-version = '2.20.1'
+version = '2.21.0'
 # The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags.
-release = '2.20.1'
+release = '2.21.0'
 
 # The language for content autogenerated by Sphinx. Refer to documentation
 # for a list of supported languages.