From e5916a94ae86a738edf6cce9a5a5de66fdf220c2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Md Junaed Hossain <169046794+junaed-optimizely@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2026 20:00:32 +0600
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] [FSSDK-13070] update CHANGELOG for python v5.7.0

---
 CHANGELOG.md | 11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 97d0f626..8f36a597 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,16 @@
 # Optimizely Python SDK Changelog
 
+## 5.7.0
+September 2nd, 2026
+
+### New Features
+
+**Holdout Targeted Delivery Exclusion**: Holdouts can now be configured to exclude Targeted Delivery rules, so users held out of experiments still receive their Targeted Delivery experiences. This gives you a cleaner measure of experiment impact without holding users back from ongoing rollouts.
+
+- Add holdout exclusion logic for Targeted Delivery rules ([#522](https://github.com/optimizely/python-sdk/pull/522))
+
+---
+
 ## 5.6.0
 July 10th, 2026
 

From abb55ca4c671ad7ef1b7ae05e6c016499a776b50 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Md Junaed Hossain <169046794+junaed-optimizely@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2026 20:00:41 +0600
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] [FSSDK-13070] bump version to 5.7.0

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 optimizely/version.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/optimizely/version.py b/optimizely/version.py
index d9d9718e..88def819 100644
--- a/optimizely/version.py
+++ b/optimizely/version.py
@@ -11,5 +11,5 @@
 # See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 # limitations under the License.
 
-version_info = (5, 6, 0)
+version_info = (5, 7, 0)
 __version__ = '.'.join(str(v) for v in version_info)