diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index cca4903..d783256 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,6 +1,10 @@
 # Change Log
 All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file. This change log follows the conventions of [keepachangelog.com](http://keepachangelog.com/).
 
+## [0.1.176] - 2021-09-29
+### Fixed
+- Usage of `defcfn` without a docstring produced an invalid `def` form
+
 ## [0.1.169] - 2021-09-28
 ### Added
 - Macro for easily wrapping native functions with arbitrary logic
@@ -11,4 +15,5 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file. This change
 - Support for serializing and deserializing arbitrary Clojure functions
 - Support for serializing and deserializing arbitrary Clojure data structures
 
+[Unreleased]: https://github.com/IGJoshua/coffi/compare/v0.1.169...HEAD
 [0.1.169]: https://github.com/IGJoshua/coffi/compare/16f56bc31d69142ec4d2fb61b15b069d78b127ca...v0.1.169
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index cd75f9d..614508e 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ This library is available on Clojars. Add one of the following entries to the
 `:deps` key of your `deps.edn`:
 
 ```clojure
-org.suskalo/coffi {:mvn/version "0.1.169"}
+org.suskalo/coffi {:mvn/version "0.1.176"}
 io.github.IGJoshua/coffi {:git/tag "v0.1.169" :git/sha "7ec2748"}
 ```
 
diff --git a/src/clj/coffi/ffi.clj b/src/clj/coffi/ffi.clj
index 1d9c544..4c966e6 100644
--- a/src/clj/coffi/ffi.clj
+++ b/src/clj/coffi/ffi.clj
@@ -579,7 +579,8 @@
                                    (mapv (comp symbol name)
                                          (:native-arglist args)))))))
                    (:attr-map args)))
-         ~@(list (:doc args))
+         ~@(when-let [doc (:doc args)]
+             (list doc))
          fun#))))
 (s/fdef defcfn
   :args ::defcfn-args)