diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 3df356d..f65dfcd 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -11,6 +11,11 @@ The version numbers are according to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/).
 - OCR provider specific dependencies are now being loaded lazily to reduce the import time
 ### Removed
 
+
+## Release v0.2.3 (2024-10-29)
+### Changed
+- OCR provider specific dependencies are now being loaded lazily to reduce the import time
+
 ## Release v0.2.2 (2024-10-03)
 ### Added
 - Added OpenTelemetry to `GoogleAzureOCR`, `GoogleOCR`, `AzureOCR`, and `OcrWrapper` to enable tracing of the OCR process
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 0a1511b..4e1b5d9 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [project]
 name = "ocr_wrapper"
-version = "0.2.2"
+version = "0.2.3"
 license.file = "LICENSE.md"
 authors = [{ name = "DeepOpinion", email = "hello@deepopinion.ai" }]
 urls.repository = "https://github.com/deepopinion/ocr_wrapper"