diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
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+# 1.0.0 - July 6, 2020
+
+- Added the following aliases to miniscript for ease of operations 
+	- Rename `pk` to `pk_k`
+	- Rename `thresh_m` to `multi`
+	- Add alias `pk(K)` = `c:pk_k(K)`
+	- Add alias `pkh(K)` = `c:pk_h(K)`
+- Fixed Miniscript parser bugs when decoding Hashlocks
+- Added scriptContext(`Legacy` and `Segwitv0`) to Miniscript. 
+- Miscellenous fixes against DoS attacks for heavy nesting.
+- Fixed Satisfier bug that caused flipping of arguments for `and_v` and `and_n` and `and_or`
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
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 [package]
 name = "miniscript"
-version = "0.12.0"
-authors = ["Andrew Poelstra <apoelstra@wpsoftware.net>"]
+version = "1.0.0"
+authors = ["Andrew Poelstra <apoelstra@wpsoftware.net>, Sanket Kanjalkar <sanket1729@gmail.com>"]
 repository = "https://github.com/apoelstra/miniscript"
 description = "Miniscript: a subset of Bitcoin Script designed for analysis"
 license = "CC0-1.0"
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@@ -52,3 +52,6 @@ active development and is not held to the same standards as `rust-bitcoin` or
 For this reason, it is not recommended to use it in production.
 
 
+# Release Notes
+
+See [CHANGELOG.md](CHANGELOG.md).
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