diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
index 9dce1406..def5c14b 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 Changelog for ssm
 =================
+* Tue Dev 01 2020 Adrian Coveney <adrian.coveney@stfc.ac.uk> - 3.1.0-1
+ - Enabled retries for all AMS communication methods to avoid timeouts from
+   crashing SSM.
+
 * Wed Sep 23 2020 Adrian Coveney <adrian.coveney@stfc.ac.uk> - 3.0.0-1
  - As part of the migration to Python 3, this release removes support for
    Python 2.6.
diff --git a/apel-ssm.spec b/apel-ssm.spec
index e0783246..d2a74a28 100644
--- a/apel-ssm.spec
+++ b/apel-ssm.spec
@@ -100,6 +100,10 @@ rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
 %doc %_defaultdocdir/%{name}
 
 %changelog
+* Tue Dev 01 2020 Adrian Coveney <adrian.coveney@stfc.ac.uk> - 3.1.0-1
+ - Enabled retries for all AMS communication methods to avoid timeouts from
+   crashing SSM.
+
 * Wed Sep 23 2020 Adrian Coveney <adrian.coveney@stfc.ac.uk> - 3.0.0-1
  - As part of the migration to Python 3, this release removes support for
    Python 2.6.