diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 8b7bd82..58dba66 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 
 ### Fixed
 * Fix `TypeError` exception raised with empty axes [gh-288](https://github.com/IntelPython/mkl_fft/pull/288)
+* To return input array unchanged when `axes=()` (ignore `out` parameter) [gh-293](https://github.com/IntelPython/mkl_fft/pull/293)
 
 ## [2.1.2] - 2025-12-02
 
diff --git a/mkl_fft/_version.py b/mkl_fft/_version.py
index 08a508f..fbb3ce8 100644
--- a/mkl_fft/_version.py
+++ b/mkl_fft/_version.py
@@ -1 +1 @@
-__version__ = "2.2.0dev1"
+__version__ = "2.2.0dev5"