diff --git a/docs/en/docs/release-notes.md b/docs/en/docs/release-notes.md
index 109ca08cb..cb209fde0 100644
--- a/docs/en/docs/release-notes.md
+++ b/docs/en/docs/release-notes.md
@@ -2,6 +2,9 @@
 
 ## Latest Changes
 
+
+## 0.96.0
+
 ### Features
 
 * ⚡ Update `create_cloned_field` to use a global cache and improve startup performance. PR [#4645](https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi/pull/4645) by [@madkinsz](https://github.com/madkinsz) and previous original PR by [@huonw](https://github.com/huonw).
diff --git a/fastapi/__init__.py b/fastapi/__init__.py
index a9ad62958..d564d5fa3 100644
--- a/fastapi/__init__.py
+++ b/fastapi/__init__.py
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 """FastAPI framework, high performance, easy to learn, fast to code, ready for production"""
 
-__version__ = "0.95.2"
+__version__ = "0.96.0"
 
 from starlette import status as status