diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index ca80c70..0650955 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+## 8.1.3
+
+Tested versions of Ruby: (MRI) 2.7, 3.0, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, JRuby 9.3 and JRuby 9.4
+
+- Removes unneccessary `require 'base64'` found thanks to warning in Ruby 3.3. So this removes the warning too if you were using Ruby 3.3.
+
 ## 8.1.2
 
 Backports the following fix from 8.2:
diff --git a/lib/elastic/transport/version.rb b/lib/elastic/transport/version.rb
index 416a35a..9b258fd 100644
--- a/lib/elastic/transport/version.rb
+++ b/lib/elastic/transport/version.rb
@@ -17,6 +17,6 @@
 
 module Elastic
   module Transport
-    VERSION = '8.1.2'.freeze
+    VERSION = '8.1.3'.freeze
   end
 end