diff --git a/docs/release-notes.md b/docs/release-notes.md
index 4d5aaced1..2132e76d1 100644
--- a/docs/release-notes.md
+++ b/docs/release-notes.md
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 ## Latest changes
 
+## 0.30.0
+
 * Add support for Pydantic's ORM mode:
     * Updated documentation about SQL with SQLAlchemy, using Pydantic models with ORM mode, SQLAlchemy models with relations, separation of files, simplification of code and other changes. New docs: [SQL (Relational) Databases](https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/tutorial/sql-databases/).
     * The new support for ORM mode fixes issues/adds features related to ORMs with lazy-loading, hybrid properties, dynamic/getters (using `@property` decorators) and several other use cases.
diff --git a/fastapi/__init__.py b/fastapi/__init__.py
index 85da73455..ae7016f72 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__ = "0.29.1"
+__version__ = "0.30.0"
 
 from starlette.background import BackgroundTasks