diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 0711aea..d0e9044 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -5,11 +5,12 @@ All notable changes to this project are documented in this file.
 The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/),
 and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html) (as of version 1.2.0).
 
-## [Unreleased]
+## [2.1.7] - 2024-01-10
 
 ### Changed
 
 - Upgrade to browsertrix crawler 1.4.2 (#450)
+- Upgrade to warc2zim 2.2.0
 
 ## [2.1.6] - 2024-11-07
 
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index ffedf8b..e522b95 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -11,16 +11,13 @@ dependencies = [
   "requests==2.32.3",
   "inotify==0.2.10",
   "tld==0.13",
-  "warc2zim @ git+https://github.com/openzim/warc2zim@main",
+  "warc2zim==2.2.0",
 ]
 dynamic = ["authors", "classifiers", "keywords", "license", "version", "urls"]
 
 [tool.hatch.metadata.hooks.openzim-metadata]
 kind = "scraper"
 
-[tool.hatch.metadata]
-allow-direct-references = true  # to be removed once we use a released warc2zim version
-
 [project.optional-dependencies]
 scripts = [
   "invoke==2.2.0",
diff --git a/src/zimit/__about__.py b/src/zimit/__about__.py
index 63e60b5..b6d2a0c 100644
--- a/src/zimit/__about__.py
+++ b/src/zimit/__about__.py
@@ -1 +1 @@
-__version__ = "2.1.7-dev0"
+__version__ = "2.1.7"