VERSION      | 2 +-
 doc/news.rst | 6 ++++++
 pyderasn.py  | 2 +-

diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index a233cfcdb584133924ee353c0e37f95386fd922c8fe14b78fef107e3d103bae5..eac7f115ab4ad1209330f28ff2c5bc44db822d0dd059bf1863830486cb93ffd4 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-3.0
+3.1
diff --git a/doc/news.rst b/doc/news.rst
index 1833275921bcbff15461cd1aad8eea7459b378874581b1f335d9df2bca1c128b..2578fed9d6cda1098cc3aa8330b2784147cf070c08943830721c04a71a9ab2b3 100644
--- a/doc/news.rst
+++ b/doc/news.rst
@@ -1,6 +1,12 @@
 News
 ====
 
+.. _release3.1:
+
+3.1
+---
+* Fix bug related to DecodeError showing with DecodePathDefBy entities
+
 .. _release3.0:
 
 3.0
diff --git a/pyderasn.py b/pyderasn.py
index e09e82b83642f6eb46e7177d4423867eee203f4e9b14f0fda25af64bc788e64d..fe13f77ab8e166732a32be41c80511a80351fe67a2588b8d94c93095ba192c24 100755
--- a/pyderasn.py
+++ b/pyderasn.py
@@ -588,7 +588,7 @@         return " ".join(
             c for c in (
                 "" if self.klass is None else self.klass.__name__,
                 (
-                    ("(%s)" % ".".join(self.decode_path))
+                    ("(%s)" % ".".join(str(dp) for dp in self.decode_path))
                     if len(self.decode_path) > 0 else ""
                 ),
                 ("(at %d)" % self.offset) if self.offset > 0 else "",