diff --git a/.changes/v0.7.0.md b/.changes/v0.7.0.md
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+## v0.7.0 - 2025-02-11
+### Added
+* [feat]: package `packageOperation` option `checkVersion` implemented
+* user management added - see docs
+* Support for remote config sources. Only config file and list can be used for now.
+* Cache functionality - still a WIP
+* Flag `--s3-endpoint` for config file fetching from S3
+### Changed
+* Internal refactoring of config setup
+* Formatting and sending for notifications
+* name of `configfetcher` to `remotefetcher`
+* Flags that took comma-separated lists now have to be passed multiple times for each argument.
+* Hosts passed to `exec host` now checked against default SSH config files
+### Fixed
+* Parsing of remote URLs when determining list config file path
+* Incorrect error notification template value
diff --git a/release b/release
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--- a/release
+++ b/release
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
 export CURRENT_TAG="$(go run backy.go version -V)"
 changie batch $CURRENT_TAG
 changie merge
+git add .changes/
+git commit =am "$CURRENT_TAG"
 git tag "$CURRENT_TAG"
 git push all
 git push all --tags