diff --git a/docs/release-notes.md b/docs/release-notes.md
index f8bc57af7..155e70bec 100644
--- a/docs/release-notes.md
+++ b/docs/release-notes.md
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 ## Latest changes
 
+## 0.36.0
+
 * Fix implementation for `skip_defaults` when returning a Pydantic model. PR [#422](https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi/pull/422) by [@dmontagu](https://github.com/dmontagu).
 * Fix OpenAPI generation when using the same dependency in multiple places for the same *path operation*. PR [#417](https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi/pull/417) by [@dmontagu](https://github.com/dmontagu).
 * Allow having empty paths in *path operations* used with `include_router` and a `prefix`.
diff --git a/fastapi/__init__.py b/fastapi/__init__.py
index 3a422824b..04d1406f2 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__ = "0.35.0"
+__version__ = "0.36.0"
 
 from starlette.background import BackgroundTasks