diff --git a/docs/en/docs/release-notes.md b/docs/en/docs/release-notes.md
index 2d32f2780..e741b86ed 100644
--- a/docs/en/docs/release-notes.md
+++ b/docs/en/docs/release-notes.md
@@ -2,6 +2,9 @@
 
 ## Latest Changes
 
+
+## 0.88.0
+
 ### Upgrades
 
 * ⬆ Bump Starlette to version `0.22.0` to fix bad encoding for query parameters in new `TestClient`. PR [#5659](https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi/pull/5659) by [@azogue](https://github.com/azogue).
diff --git a/fastapi/__init__.py b/fastapi/__init__.py
index afdc94874..037d9804b 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__ = "0.87.0"
+__version__ = "0.88.0"
 
 from starlette import status as status