diff --git a/ANNOUNCE.md b/ANNOUNCE.md
index 1fda5f8..9b4ad65 100644
--- a/ANNOUNCE.md
+++ b/ANNOUNCE.md
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
-Announcing blosc2-grok 0.2.1
+Announcing blosc2-grok 0.2.2
 ============================
 
-This is a minor release, where the default parameters are
-automatically changed to the defaults in blosc2-grok
-without having to call `set_params_defaults`.
+This is a minor release, where the grok library
+is automatically initialized when needed instead of
+having to import the package.
 For more info, you can have a look at the release notes in:
 
 https://github.com/Blosc/blosc2_grok/releases
diff --git a/RELEASE_NOTES.md b/RELEASE_NOTES.md
index 1935ccc..dc0d64d 100644
--- a/RELEASE_NOTES.md
+++ b/RELEASE_NOTES.md
@@ -2,7 +2,9 @@
 
 ## Changes from 0.2.1 to 0.2.2
 
-#XXX version-specific blurb XXX#
+* Changed initialization of the grok library
+  to first time it is used. This evicts having to import
+  the `blosc2-grok` package to use the plugin.
 
 
 ## Changes from 0.2.0 to 0.2.1
diff --git a/blosc2_grok/__init__.py b/blosc2_grok/__init__.py
index d2e1024..8d67d82 100644
--- a/blosc2_grok/__init__.py
+++ b/blosc2_grok/__init__.py
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 import atexit
 import numpy as np
 
-__version__ = "0.2.2.dev0"
+__version__ = "0.2.2"
 
 
 class GrkFileFmt(Enum):
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index bf60e63..e452d8c 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ build-backend = "scikit_build_core.build"
 
 [project]
 name = "blosc2_grok"
-version = "0.2.2.dev0"
+version = "0.2.2"
 readme = "README.md"
 authors = [
     {name = "Blosc Development Team", email = "contact@blosc.org"},