diff --git a/docs/en/docs/release-notes.md b/docs/en/docs/release-notes.md
index fcbe86cf2..e6611c7a6 100644
--- a/docs/en/docs/release-notes.md
+++ b/docs/en/docs/release-notes.md
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
 
 ## Latest changes
 
+## 0.61.1
+
 ### Fixes
 
 * Fix issues using `jsonable_encoder` with SQLAlchemy models directly. PR [#1987](https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi/pull/1987).
diff --git a/fastapi/__init__.py b/fastapi/__init__.py
index 6169e1452..626e92a73 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__ = "0.61.0"
+__version__ = "0.61.1"
 
 from starlette import status