diff --git a/docs/en/docs/release-notes.md b/docs/en/docs/release-notes.md
index 752b42d3e..5a8610a09 100644
--- a/docs/en/docs/release-notes.md
+++ b/docs/en/docs/release-notes.md
@@ -2,6 +2,9 @@
 
 ## Latest Changes
 
+
+## 0.98.0
+
 ### Features
 
 * ✨ Allow disabling `redirect_slashes` at the FastAPI app level. PR [#3432](https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi/pull/3432) by [@cyberlis](https://github.com/cyberlis).
diff --git a/fastapi/__init__.py b/fastapi/__init__.py
index 46a056363..038e1ba86 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__ = "0.97.0"
+__version__ = "0.98.0"
 
 from starlette import status as status