diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 4d97cea7a4..d0c8d74dfc 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Full documentation for rocm_smi_lib is available at [https://rocm.docs.amd.com/]
 
 ***All information listed below is for reference and subject to change.***
 
-## rocm_smi_lib for ROCm 6.3
+## rocm_smi_lib for ROCm 6.2.1
 
 ### Added
 
@@ -16,7 +16,8 @@ Full documentation for rocm_smi_lib is available at [https://rocm.docs.amd.com/]
 
 ### Optimized
 
-- N/A
+- **Improved handling of UnicodeEncodeErrors with non UTF-8 locales**  
+Non UTF-8 locales were causing crashing on UTF-8 special characters
 
 ### Fixed
 
diff --git a/python_smi_tools/rocm_smi.py b/python_smi_tools/rocm_smi.py
index 841355bf4a..65d2677b8d 100755
--- a/python_smi_tools/rocm_smi.py
+++ b/python_smi_tools/rocm_smi.py
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ except ImportError:
 # Hash  version - Shortened commit hash. Print here and not with lib for consistency with amd-smi
 SMI_MAJ = 2
 SMI_MIN = 3
-SMI_PAT = 0
+SMI_PAT = 1
 # SMI_HASH is provided by rsmiBindings
 __version__ = '%s.%s.%s+%s' % (SMI_MAJ, SMI_MIN, SMI_PAT, SMI_HASH)