diff --git a/docs/en/docs/release-notes.md b/docs/en/docs/release-notes.md
index b5c6c492b..4048ffab4 100644
--- a/docs/en/docs/release-notes.md
+++ b/docs/en/docs/release-notes.md
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
 
 ## Latest changes
 
+## 0.61.0
+
 ### Features
 
 * Add support for injecting `HTTPConnection` (as `Request` and `WebSocket`). Useful for sharing app state in dependencies. PR [#1827](https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi/pull/1827) by [@nsidnev](https://github.com/nsidnev).
diff --git a/fastapi/__init__.py b/fastapi/__init__.py
index 408c99db1..6169e1452 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__ = "0.60.2"
+__version__ = "0.61.0"
 
 from starlette import status