diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 04854759..fa02f9f1 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ proxmox-http-error = { version = "0.1.0", path = "proxmox-http-error" }
 proxmox-human-byte = { version = "0.1.0", path = "proxmox-human-byte" }
 proxmox-io = { version = "1.1.0", path = "proxmox-io" }
 proxmox-lang = { version = "1.3", path = "proxmox-lang" }
-proxmox-log= { version = "0.2.3", path = "proxmox-log" }
+proxmox-log= { version = "0.2.5", path = "proxmox-log" }
 proxmox-login = { version = "0.1.0", path = "proxmox-login" }
 proxmox-product-config = { version = "0.2.0", path = "proxmox-product-config" }
 proxmox-config-digest = { version = "0.1.0", path = "proxmox-config-digest" }
diff --git a/proxmox-log/Cargo.toml b/proxmox-log/Cargo.toml
index 9336a9cb..4a16a287 100644
--- a/proxmox-log/Cargo.toml
+++ b/proxmox-log/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "proxmox-log"
-version = "0.2.4"
+version = "0.2.5"
 authors.workspace = true
 edition.workspace = true
 license.workspace = true
diff --git a/proxmox-log/debian/changelog b/proxmox-log/debian/changelog
index 79a5751a..7e4debcd 100644
--- a/proxmox-log/debian/changelog
+++ b/proxmox-log/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+rust-proxmox-log (0.2.5-1) bookworm; urgency=medium
+
+  * init_logger: fall back to printing to stderr when syslog is unavailable
+
+  * show an error on stderr if parsing the log level variable fails
+
+ -- Proxmox Support Team <support@proxmox.com>  Mon, 16 Sep 2024 15:11:10 +0200
+
 rust-proxmox-log (0.2.4-1) bookworm; urgency=medium
 
   * restore behavior that the cli logger logs to stderr instead of stdout
diff --git a/proxmox-log/debian/control b/proxmox-log/debian/control
index bfc2e6e0..abaa8f82 100644
--- a/proxmox-log/debian/control
+++ b/proxmox-log/debian/control
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ Provides:
  librust-proxmox-log-0+default-dev (= ${binary:Version}),
  librust-proxmox-log-0.2-dev (= ${binary:Version}),
  librust-proxmox-log-0.2+default-dev (= ${binary:Version}),
- librust-proxmox-log-0.2.4-dev (= ${binary:Version}),
- librust-proxmox-log-0.2.4+default-dev (= ${binary:Version})
+ librust-proxmox-log-0.2.5-dev (= ${binary:Version}),
+ librust-proxmox-log-0.2.5+default-dev (= ${binary:Version})
 Description: Logging infrastructure for proxmox - Rust source code
  Source code for Debianized Rust crate "proxmox-log"