diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 48da7e81..1e3136d9 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -9,13 +9,14 @@ This project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.htm
 
 
 ## [Unreleased]
+
+## [7.2.0] - 2021-10-01
 ### Added
 - GPL2 License added
 - MarkDuplicatesSpark process added as an option
 ### Changed
 - Removed explicit index creation process and enabled option for MarkDuplicate process to create index
-- Removed explicit maxForks allocation and instead allow CPU and memory allocation to dictate parallelization
-
+- Allow CPU and memory allocation to dictate parallelization rather than maxForks
 
 ## [7.1.0] - 2021-07-29
 ### Added
diff --git a/pipeline/config/methods.config b/pipeline/config/methods.config
index 316cefea..98e82021 100644
--- a/pipeline/config/methods.config
+++ b/pipeline/config/methods.config
@@ -3,9 +3,9 @@ import nextflow.util.SysHelper
 
 manifest {
     name = "align-DNA"
-    author = "Benjamin Carlin; Chenghao Zhu; Aaron Holmes"
+    author = "Benjamin Carlin; Chenghao Zhu; Aaron Holmes; Yash Patel"
     description = "alignment pipeline for paired fastqs DNA samples"
-    version = "7.1.0"
+    version = "7.2.0"
     }
 
 params {