diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
new file mode 100644
--- /dev/null
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+## Version 0.2.1.0 (2018-10-01)
+
+- Replace DEPRECATED pragma for startClr and stopClr with a WARNING pragma ([#22][22], [@moodmosaic][moodmosaic])
+
+[moodmosaic]:
+  https://gitlab.com/moodmosaic
+
+[22]:
+  https://gitlab.com/tim-m89/clr-haskell/merge_requests/22
diff --git a/clr-host.cabal b/clr-host.cabal
--- a/clr-host.cabal
+++ b/clr-host.cabal
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 name:                clr-host
-version:             0.2.0.1
+version:             0.2.1.0
 synopsis:            Hosting the Common Language Runtime
 description:         clr-host is a library that provides the ability to host (also known as embed) the
                      common language runtime within the current Haskell process. Generally you'll only
@@ -10,13 +10,13 @@
 license:             BSD3
 license-file:        LICENSE
 author:              Tim Matthews
-maintainer:          pepeiborra@gmail.com
+maintainer:          Nikos Baxevanis <nikos.baxevanis@gmail.com>
 copyright:           2016-2017 Tim Matthews
 category:            Language, FFI, CLR, .NET
 build-type:          Custom
-extra-source-files:  src/Driver.cs
+extra-source-files:  src/Driver.cs, CHANGELOG.md
 extra-tmp-files:     src/Driver.dll
-cabal-version:       >=1.24
+cabal-version:       1.24
 
 source-repository head
     type:            git
diff --git a/src/Clr/Host.hs b/src/Clr/Host.hs
--- a/src/Clr/Host.hs
+++ b/src/Clr/Host.hs
@@ -21,7 +21,17 @@
 import Foreign.Ptr
 
 
-{-# DEPRECATED startClr, stopClr "Use withClr" #-}
+{-# WARNING startClr, stopClr [
+        "This function was deprecated in version 0.2.0 in favor of withClr "
+      , "which was never part of the public API."
+      , ""
+      , "withClr is there to provide a convenient syntax that ensures both "
+      , "startClr and stopClr are called."
+      , ""
+      , "stopClr is no-op and so startClr must be called once per process. "
+      , "See also: https://gitlab.com/tim-m89/clr-haskell/issues/33"
+      ]
+#-}
 startClr :: IO ()
 startClr = do
   ClrHostConfig hostType <- getClrHostConfig