diff --git a/docs/release-notes.md b/docs/release-notes.md
index e34187465..0c63c3c26 100644
--- a/docs/release-notes.md
+++ b/docs/release-notes.md
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 ## Next release
 
+## 0.21.0
+
 * On body parsing errors, raise `from` previous exception, to allow better introspection in logging code. PR [#192](https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi/pull/195) by [@ricardomomm](https://github.com/ricardomomm).
 
 * Use Python logger named "`fastapi`" instead of root logger. PR [#222](https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi/pull/222) by [@euri10](https://github.com/euri10).
diff --git a/fastapi/__init__.py b/fastapi/__init__.py
index 3cf7a6613..2c895c4c9 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__ = "0.20.1"
+__version__ = "0.21.0"
 
 from starlette.background import BackgroundTasks