diff --git a/docs/release-notes.md b/docs/release-notes.md
index 28b51ff40..d367a44b8 100644
--- a/docs/release-notes.md
+++ b/docs/release-notes.md
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 ## Next release
 
+## 0.13.0
+
 * Improve/upgrade OAuth2 scopes support with `SecurityScopes`:
     * `SecurityScopes` can be declared as a parameter like `Request`, to get the scopes of all super-dependencies/dependants.
     * Improve `Security` handling, merging scopes when declaring `SecurityScopes`.
diff --git a/fastapi/__init__.py b/fastapi/__init__.py
index 5a4c9b971..e77c674f0 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__ = "0.12.1"
+__version__ = "0.13.0"
 
 from starlette.background import BackgroundTasks