diff --git a/docs/en/docs/release-notes.md b/docs/en/docs/release-notes.md
index f2c89aaaa..921c2b992 100644
--- a/docs/en/docs/release-notes.md
+++ b/docs/en/docs/release-notes.md
@@ -2,6 +2,9 @@
 
 ## Latest Changes
 
+
+## 0.68.1
+
 * ✨ Add support for `read_with_orm_mode`, to support [SQLModel](https://sqlmodel.tiangolo.com/) relationship attributes. PR [#3757](https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi/pull/3757) by [@tiangolo](https://github.com/tiangolo).
 
 ### Translations
diff --git a/fastapi/__init__.py b/fastapi/__init__.py
index 60f90b80d..316362669 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__ = "0.68.0"
+__version__ = "0.68.1"
 
 from starlette import status as status