diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 7842ba07..af17992f 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -7,6 +7,12 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 
 ## [Unreleased]
 
+## [0.20.2] - 2024-11-14
+
+### Changed 
+
+- Lock msgpacker version to `0.4.3`
+
 ## [0.20.0] - 2024-08-14
 
 ### Changed 
@@ -718,7 +724,8 @@ is necessary since `rkyv/validation` was required as a bound.
 [#282]: https://github.com/dusk-network/plonk/issues/282
 
 <!-- VERSIONS -->
-[Unreleased]: https://github.com/dusk-network/plonk/compare/v0.20.0...HEAD
+[Unreleased]: https://github.com/dusk-network/plonk/compare/v0.20.2...HEAD
+[0.20.2]: https://github.com/dusk-network/plonk/compare/v0.20.0...v0.20.2
 [0.20.0]: https://github.com/dusk-network/plonk/compare/v0.19.2...v0.20.0
 [0.19.2]: https://github.com/dusk-network/plonk/compare/v0.19.1...v0.19.2
 [0.19.1]: https://github.com/dusk-network/plonk/compare/v0.19.0...v0.19.1
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index e9462f54..d363aab6 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "dusk-plonk"
-version = "0.20.0"
+version = "0.20.2"
 categories =["algorithms", "cryptography", "science", "mathematics"]
 edition = "2021"
 keywords = ["cryptography", "plonk", "zk-snarks", "zero-knowledge", "crypto"]
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ dusk-jubjub = {version = "0.14", default-features = false}
 ff = {version = "0.13", default-features = false}
 itertools = {version = "0.9", default-features = false}
 hashbrown = {version = "0.9", default-features=false, features = ["ahash"]}
-msgpacker = {version = "0.4", default-features=false, features = ["alloc", "derive"], optional=true}
+msgpacker = {version = "=0.4.3", default-features=false, features = ["alloc", "derive"], optional=true}
 miniz_oxide = {version = "0.7", default-features=false, features = ["with-alloc"], optional = true}
 rayon = {version = "1.3", optional = true}
 sha2 = {version = "0.10", default-features = false, optional = true}