diff --git a/brian_dashboard_manager/inventory_provider/interfaces.py b/brian_dashboard_manager/inventory_provider/interfaces.py
index 44951bcba912970d44bc367f94b179354bab7ab9..ea0b023f167b186c3a4492208e6ee94cb6b68883 100644
--- a/brian_dashboard_manager/inventory_provider/interfaces.py
+++ b/brian_dashboard_manager/inventory_provider/interfaces.py
@@ -436,4 +436,8 @@ def get_nren_regions(host):
         data = []
 
     jsonschema.validate(data, NREN_REGION_LIST_SCHEMA)
+    # ugly hack: if a region isn't on the list of recognised regions, prune it from the region list
+    # TODO: figure out something that isn't this
+    recognised_regions = ['EAP']
+    data = [d for d in data if d['region'] in recognised_regions]
     return data
diff --git a/changelog.md b/changelog.md
index a41a06370af488a77e66e1ad0b1a99c8d9d96d26..fc79ef63ddcb61fb7a9d68c6eeb01d1cf9db4ffd 100644
--- a/changelog.md
+++ b/changelog.md
@@ -2,6 +2,9 @@
 
 All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 
+## [0.76] - 2024-12-05
+- POL1-869: Fix issue where if unrecognized regions are used, no services are populated for the NREN.
+
 ## [0.75] - 2024-11-13
 - POL1-857: Fix issue with Grafana not properly escaping certain values for the home dashboard.
 - Fix connection pool thread exhaustion.
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index df7c84e74c3eab43f697fe351787ea0a953d2ff1..74ee3916a698ab21d5165bf97edc874b6e475683 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ from setuptools import setup, find_packages
 
 setup(
     name='brian-dashboard-manager',
-    version="0.75",
+    version="0.76",
     author='GEANT',
     author_email='swd@geant.org',
     description='',