diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
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--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ find_package(GaudiProject)
 #---------------------------------------------------------------
 
 # Declare project name and version
-gaudi_project(Lbcom v20r9
-              USE LHCb v42r12
+gaudi_project(Lbcom v20r9p1
+              USE LHCb v42r12p1
               DATA ParamFiles
                    TCK/HltTCK)
diff --git a/ReleaseNotes/v20r9p1.md b/ReleaseNotes/v20r9p1.md
new file mode 100644
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+++ b/ReleaseNotes/v20r9p1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+2020-08-14 Lbcom v20r9p1
+===
+
+This version uses
+LHCb [v42r12p1](../../../../LHCb/-/tags/v42r12p1),
+Gaudi [v28r2p1](../../../../Gaudi/-/tags/v28r2p1) and
+LCG [88](http://lcginfo.cern.ch/release/88/) with ROOT 6.08.06.
+
+This version is released on `2017-patches` branch. It is intended for 2017 incremental stripping (S29r2pX, S32r0pX, S33r1pX) and patches to Moore, Brunel (Reco17) and stripping in 2017 simulation workflows. Builds with gcc49 on slc6 and with gcc62 on slc6 and centos7
+Built relative to Lbcom [v20r9](../-/tags/v20r9), with the following changes:
+
+### Documentation ~Documentation
+
+- Update the release notes template to latest version from master, !496 (@cattanem)
+