diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 0215ff30..58babce5 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -23,3 +23,4 @@ data.json
 meta.json
 site/
 docs/index.md
+docs/changelog.md
diff --git a/build-docs.sh b/build-docs.sh
index d2c2d994..a2e20225 100755
--- a/build-docs.sh
+++ b/build-docs.sh
@@ -3,5 +3,6 @@
 # we need to copy the README.md file to the docs folder and remove
 # the docs/ prefix from the links at build time.
 cp README.md docs/index.md
+cp CHANGELOG.md docs/changelog.md
 sed -i '' -e 's/docs\///g' docs/index.md
 mkdocs build