diff --git a/docs/release-notes.md b/docs/release-notes.md
index a04c6f78c..51f607d09 100644
--- a/docs/release-notes.md
+++ b/docs/release-notes.md
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
 
 ## Latest Changes
 
+## 0.0.36
+
 ### Internal
 
 * ➖ Drop support for `sqlmodel-slim`, no more versions will be released, use only `sqmodel`. PR [#1772](https://github.com/fastapi/sqlmodel/pull/1772) by [@tiangolo](https://github.com/tiangolo).
diff --git a/sqlmodel/__init__.py b/sqlmodel/__init__.py
index f71b5265b..cb64297fb 100644
--- a/sqlmodel/__init__.py
+++ b/sqlmodel/__init__.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-__version__ = "0.0.35"
+__version__ = "0.0.36"
 
 # Re-export from SQLAlchemy
 from sqlalchemy.engine import create_engine as create_engine