diff --git a/CHANGELOG.rst b/CHANGELOG.rst
index 3651e5f7..61736099 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.rst
+++ b/CHANGELOG.rst
@@ -5,6 +5,19 @@ Community Crypto Release Notes
 .. contents:: Topics
 
 
+v1.9.6
+======
+
+Release Summary
+---------------
+
+Regular bugfix release.
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- cryptography backend - improve Unicode handling for Python 2 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.crypto/pull/313).
+
 v1.9.5
 ======
 
diff --git a/changelogs/changelog.yaml b/changelogs/changelog.yaml
index 1c4007ad..195eb59e 100644
--- a/changelogs/changelog.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/changelog.yaml
@@ -582,3 +582,12 @@ releases:
     - 296-openssl_pkcs12-cryptography-35.yml
     - 300-pyopenssl-cryptography-35.yml
     release_date: '2021-10-06'
+  1.9.6:
+    changes:
+      bugfixes:
+      - cryptography backend - improve Unicode handling for Python 2 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.crypto/pull/313).
+      release_summary: Regular bugfix release.
+    fragments:
+    - 1.9.6.yml
+    - 313-unicode-names.yml
+    release_date: '2021-10-30'
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/1.9.6.yml b/changelogs/fragments/1.9.6.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 1b14bd80..00000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/1.9.6.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-release_summary: Regular bugfix release.
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/313-unicode-names.yml b/changelogs/fragments/313-unicode-names.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 759b4595..00000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/313-unicode-names.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - "cryptography backend - improve Unicode handling for Python 2 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.crypto/pull/313)."