diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..6435199777e8e7ddc29b034a546e15b4fb471e67
--- /dev/null
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+# Change Log
+
+## Unreleased
+
+### Removed
+* LLVM backend because it was not used much and not good integrated in pystencils.
diff --git a/MANIFEST.in b/MANIFEST.in
index 90981715c2155f813ce5cc12db4f6f1d7ec53edb..3d3c4785554f28413d417f1d059051d0967ba9cf 100644
--- a/MANIFEST.in
+++ b/MANIFEST.in
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ include README.md
 include COPYING.txt
 include AUTHORS.txt
 include CONTRIBUTING.md
+CHANGELOG.md
 global-include *.pyx
 include versioneer.py
 include pystencils/_version.py
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index e3e54f55ab479c7f07f4ae00a11a6561e74b2ff6..0b09df94a64b3366749dac24b1f533de1402523d 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -60,7 +60,6 @@ All options:
 - `autodiff`: enable derivation of adjoint kernels and generation of Torch/Tensorflow operations
 - `doc`: packages to build documentation
 - `kerncraft`: use kerncraft for automatic performance analysis
-- `llvm_jit`: llvmlite as additional CPU backend
 
 Options can be combined e.g.
 ```bash
@@ -73,12 +72,12 @@ Documentation
 -------------
 
 Read the docs [here](https://pycodegen.pages.i10git.cs.fau.de/pystencils) and
-check out the Jupyter notebooks in `doc/notebooks`.
+check out the Jupyter notebooks in `doc/notebooks`. The **Changelog** of pystencils can be found [here](https://i10git.cs.fau.de/pycodegen/pystencils/-/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md).
 
 Authors
 -------
 
-Many thanks go to the [contributors](AUTHORS.txt) of pystencils.
+Many thanks go to the [contributors](https://i10git.cs.fau.de/pycodegen/pystencils/-/blob/master/AUTHORS.txt) of pystencils.
 
 ### Please cite us