diff --git a/docs/en/docs/release-notes.md b/docs/en/docs/release-notes.md
index 090a344a6..2dfb47c12 100644
--- a/docs/en/docs/release-notes.md
+++ b/docs/en/docs/release-notes.md
@@ -2,6 +2,9 @@
 
 ## Latest Changes
 
+
+## 0.72.0
+
 ### Features
 
 * ✨ Enable configuring Swagger UI parameters. Original PR [#2568](https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi/pull/2568) by [@jmriebold](https://github.com/jmriebold). Here are the new docs: [Configuring Swagger UI](https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/advanced/extending-openapi/#configuring-swagger-ui).
diff --git a/fastapi/__init__.py b/fastapi/__init__.py
index 5b735aed5..d83fe6fbd 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__ = "0.71.0"
+__version__ = "0.72.0"
 
 from starlette import status as status