diff --git a/CHANGELOG.rst b/CHANGELOG.rst
index 694fc124..e0ba17fd 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.rst
+++ b/CHANGELOG.rst
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+3.2.1
+=====
+April 13, 2016
+
+* Introduced an update to allow deserializer compilation with recently released Cython 0.24
+
 3.2.0
 =====
 April 12, 2016
diff --git a/cassandra/__init__.py b/cassandra/__init__.py
index b9183c94..354150cb 100644
--- a/cassandra/__init__.py
+++ b/cassandra/__init__.py
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ class NullHandler(logging.Handler):
 
 logging.getLogger('cassandra').addHandler(NullHandler())
 
-__version_info__ = (3, 2, 0, 'post0')
+__version_info__ = (3, 2, 1, 'post0')
 __version__ = '.'.join(map(str, __version_info__))
 
 
diff --git a/cassandra/deserializers.pyx b/cassandra/deserializers.pyx
index 3967ea14..9ffcdd5d 100644
--- a/cassandra/deserializers.pyx
+++ b/cassandra/deserializers.pyx
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ cdef class DesDecimalType(Deserializer):
         cdef Buffer varint_buf
         slice_buffer(buf, &varint_buf, 4, buf.size - 4)
 
-        scale = unpack_num[int32_t](buf)
+        cdef int32_t scale = unpack_num[int32_t](buf)
         unscaled = varint_unpack(&varint_buf)
 
         return Decimal('%de%d' % (unscaled, -scale))