Prepare for release 2.2.1

README.md

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 ## Release Notes
+### Release 2.2.1 (January 3, 2023)
+* [PR #202](https://github.com/awslabs/amazon-kinesis-client-nodejs/pull/202) Keep Java dependencies in sync with the KCL V2.4.4
+  * Updated dependencies to match the v2.4.4 KCL Java release
+  * Updated slfj to resolve the logger's incompatibility problem 
+
 ### Release 2.2.0 (September 15, 2022)
 * [PR #165](https://github.com/awslabs/amazon-kinesis-client-nodejs/pull/165) Update Java dependencies  
-  * KCL and KCL-multilang are updated to the latest version 2.4.13
+  * KCL and KCL-multilang are updated to the latest version 2.4.3
 
 ### Release 2.1.0 (January 31, 2020)
 [Milestone #4](https://github.com/awslabs/amazon-kinesis-client-nodejs/milestone/4)

package.json

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 {
   "name": "aws-kcl",
   "description": "Kinesis Client Libray (KCL) in Node.js.",
-  "version": "2.2.0",
+  "version": "2.2.1",
   "author": {
     "name": "Amazon Web Services",
     "url": "http://aws.amazon.com/"