diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 1e4e7b1d3..d8d222953 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,3 +1,18 @@
+## 1.40.0 03/13/2017
+*Hash* ed5edd8610f5585267f07567cccec1c10b002764
+
+Statistic     | Value
+------------- | --------:
+Collaborators | 2
+Forks         | 1556
+Open Issues   | 48
+Watchers      | 3975
+
+
+#### [misc]
+*   bump fog-digitalocean version to avoid conflict. thanks geemus
+
+
 ## 1.39.0 03/13/2017
 *Hash* d6c89ea01e747f36e3d384191ac3072e29ddec64
 
diff --git a/fog.gemspec b/fog.gemspec
index f493a5424..2cc48cf5f 100644
--- a/fog.gemspec
+++ b/fog.gemspec
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ Gem::Specification.new do |s|
   ## If your rubyforge_project name is different, then edit it and comment out
   ## the sub! line in the Rakefile
   s.name              = "fog"
-  s.version           = "1.39.0"
+  s.version           = "1.40.0"
   s.date              = "2017-03-13"
   s.rubyforge_project = "fog"
 
diff --git a/lib/fog/version.rb b/lib/fog/version.rb
index 52a3c4ddb..b1a2c83d0 100644
--- a/lib/fog/version.rb
+++ b/lib/fog/version.rb
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 module Fog
-  VERSION = '1.39.0'
+  VERSION = '1.40.0'
 end