diff --git a/geant/gap_ansible/CHANGELOG.md b/geant/gap_ansible/CHANGELOG.md
index 3794ad0fb3bd6c40416287271e29b5476956ee23..24d2d8fb425e7cef74758068f6a19994fa73c818 100644
--- a/geant/gap_ansible/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/geant/gap_ansible/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 # GAP Ansible changelog
+1.0.49:
+- get rid of the hardcoded `remote_user` in playbooks.
 1.0.48:
 - fix PIM fw filter
 - add redundancy rollback config
diff --git a/geant/gap_ansible/galaxy.yml b/geant/gap_ansible/galaxy.yml
index c5fb0184f51dee61dd3ef90d844ee251307121d3..ecd70bf6724a566bd9182929980d72bfe1fd21a1 100644
--- a/geant/gap_ansible/galaxy.yml
+++ b/geant/gap_ansible/galaxy.yml
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ namespace: geant
 name: gap_ansible
 
 # The version of the collection. Must be compatible with semantic versioning
-version: 1.0.48
+version: 1.0.49
 
 # The path to the Markdown (.md) readme file. This path is relative to the root of the collection
 readme: README.md