diff --git a/Appraisals b/Appraisals
index 6ff10a9..194657e 100644
--- a/Appraisals
+++ b/Appraisals
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ appraise 'rails-8.0' do
 end
 
 appraise 'rails-8.1' do
-  gem 'rails', '~> 8.1.0.rc1'
+  gem 'rails', '~> 8.1.0'
 end
 
 appraise 'rails-edge' do
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 92e244c..178f9ec 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,15 +1,26 @@
 # Changelog
+
 All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 
 The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/),
 and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html).
+
+## [7.0.0]
+
+- Add support for `rails` version `8.1` (https://github.com/modosc/cloudflare-rails/pull/227)
+- Drop support for `rails` version `7.1` (https://github.com/modosc/cloudflare-rails/pull/224)
+- Drop support for `ruby` version `3.1` (https://github.com/modosc/cloudflare-rails/pull/191)
+
 ## [6.2.0]
+
 - Trust X-Forwarded-For from the right to the left (https://github.com/modosc/cloudflare-rails/pull/162)
 
 ## [6.1.0]
+
 - Add cloudflare? method to determine if request passed through CF (https://github.com/modosc/cloudflare-rails/pull/149)
 
 ## [6.0.0] - 2024-06-12
+
 - Drop support for `rails` version `6.1` and `7.0`, new minimum version is `7.1.0` (https://github.com/modosc/cloudflare-rails/pull/142)
 - Bump minimum ruby version to `3.1.0` in preparation for `rails` version `7.2` (https://github.com/modosc/cloudflare-rails/pull/142)
 - Relax `rails` dependencies to allow for `7.2` and `8.0` (https://github.com/modosc/cloudflare-rails/pull/142)
@@ -17,50 +28,66 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 - add `rails` version `8.0` to `Appraisals` (https://github.com/modosc/cloudflare-rails/pull/142)
 
 ## [5.0.1] - 2023-12-16
+
 - Fix `zeitwerk` loading issue (https://github.com/modosc/cloudflare-rails/pull/105)
 
 ## [5.0.0] - 2023-12-15
+
 ### Breaking Changes
+
 - Change namespace from `Cloudflare::Rails` to `CloudflareRails`. This avoids issues with the [cloudflare](https://github.com/socketry/cloudflare) gem as well as the global `Rails` namespace.
 - A static set of Cloudflare IP addresses will now be used as a fallback value in the case of Cloudflare API failures. These will not be stored in `Rails.cache` so each subsequent result will retry the Cloudflare calls. Once one suceeds the response will be cached and used.
 
 ### Added
+
 - Use `zeitwerk` to manage file loading.
 
 ## [4.1.0] - 2023-10-06
+
 - Add support for `rails` version `7.1.0`
 
 ## [4.0.0] - 2023-08-06
+
 - Fix `appraisal` for ruby `3.x`
 - properly scope railtie initializer (https://github.com/modosc/cloudflare-rails/pull/79)
 - Drop support for unsupported `rails` version `6.0.x`
 
 ## [3.0.0] - 2023-01-30
+
 - Drop support for unsupported `rails` version `5.2.x`
 - Fetch and cache IPs lazily instead of upon initialization (https://github.com/modosc/cloudflare-rails/pull/52)
 
 ## [2.4.0] - 2022-02-22
+
 - Add trailing slashes to reflect Cloudflare API URLs (https://github.com/modosc/cloudflare-rails/pull/53)
 
 ## [2.3.0] - 2021-10-22
--  Better handling of malformed IP addresses (https://github.com/modosc/cloudflare-rails/pull/49)
+
+- Better handling of malformed IP addresses (https://github.com/modosc/cloudflare-rails/pull/49)
 
 ## [2.2.0] - 2021-06-11
+
 - Fix typo in `actionpack` dependency
 
 ## [2.1.0] - 2021-06-11
+
 ### Breaking Changes
+
 - Drop support for unsupported `rails` versions (`5.0.x` and `5.1.x`)
 
 ### Added
+
 - use Net::HTTP instead of httparty ([pr](https://github.com/modosc/cloudflare-rails/pull/44))
 - Add `rails 7.0.0.alpha` support
 
 ## [2.0.0] - 2021-02-17
+
 ### Breaking Changes
+
 - Removed broad dependency on `rails`, replaced with explicit dependencies for `railties`, `activesupport`, and `actionpack` ( [issue](https://github.com/modosc/cloudflare-rails/issues/34) and [pr](https://github.com/modosc/cloudflare-rails/pull/35))
 
 ## [1.0.0] - 2020-09-29
+
 ### Added
 
 - Fix various [loading order issues](https://github.com/modosc/cloudflare-rails/pull/25).
diff --git a/gemfiles/rails_8.1.gemfile b/gemfiles/rails_8.1.gemfile
index e095716..7f0fc63 100644
--- a/gemfiles/rails_8.1.gemfile
+++ b/gemfiles/rails_8.1.gemfile
@@ -4,6 +4,6 @@
 
 source 'https://rubygems.org'
 
-gem 'rails', '~> 8.1.0.rc1'
+gem 'rails', '~> 8.1.0'
 
 gemspec path: '../'
diff --git a/lib/cloudflare_rails/version.rb b/lib/cloudflare_rails/version.rb
index 0a37793..ac430e7 100644
--- a/lib/cloudflare_rails/version.rb
+++ b/lib/cloudflare_rails/version.rb
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # frozen_string_literal: true
 
 module CloudflareRails
-  VERSION = '6.2.0'
+  VERSION = '7.0.0'
 end