diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 59f69a4153..e28dec83b7 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+# Basic asyncio support
+
+- Basic asyncio with kube config, and in_cluster_config is added.
+
+- Dynamic client, watch, stream, shared informer, leader election are not yet supported in asyncio.
+
 # Breaking Change from upgrading openapi generator to v6.6.0
 
 - Legacy dict(str, str) syntax is no longer supported in ApiClient deserializer. Only modern dict[str, str] syntax is supported.
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 9066f7a6e2..66e16e479a 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -42,6 +42,35 @@ for i in ret.items:
     print("%s\t%s\t%s" % (i.status.pod_ip, i.metadata.namespace, i.metadata.name))
 ```
 
+list all pods using asyncio:
+
+```python
+import asyncio
+from kubernetes_asyncio import client, config
+from kubernetes_asyncio.client.api_client import ApiClient
+
+
+async def main():
+    # Configs can be set in Configuration class directly or using helper
+    # utility. If no argument provided, the config will be loaded from
+    # default location.
+    await config.load_kube_config()
+
+    # use the context manager to close http sessions automatically
+    async with ApiClient() as api:
+
+        v1 = client.CoreV1Api(api)
+        print("Listing pods with their IPs:")
+        ret = await v1.list_pod_for_all_namespaces()
+
+        for i in ret.items:
+            print(i.status.pod_ip, i.metadata.namespace, i.metadata.name)
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    asyncio.run(main())
+```
+
 watch on namespace object:
 
 ```python
diff --git a/scripts/release.sh b/scripts/release.sh
index 6a9428fcb4..02e4eca7f0 100755
--- a/scripts/release.sh
+++ b/scripts/release.sh
@@ -222,9 +222,15 @@ if [[ -n "$(git diff kubernetes/client/api/custom_objects_api.py)" ]]; then
   git add kubernetes/client/api/custom_objects_api.py
   git commit -m "generated client change for custom_objects"
 fi
+
+# Re-generate the asyncio client
+scripts/update-client-asyncio.sh
+
 # Check if there is any API change, then commit
 git add kubernetes/docs kubernetes/client/api/ kubernetes/client/models/ kubernetes/swagger.json.unprocessed scripts/swagger.json
+git add kubernetes_asyncio/docs kubernetes_asyncio/client/api/ kubernetes_asyncio/client/models/ kubernetes_asyncio/swagger.json.unprocessed
 git diff-index --quiet --cached HEAD || git commit -m "generated API change"
+
 # Commit everything else
 git add .
 git commit -m "generated client change"