diff --git a/.changes/1.26.31.json b/.changes/1.26.31.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..5994ef1bb5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changes/1.26.31.json
@@ -0,0 +1,57 @@
+[
+  {
+    "category": "``backup-gateway``",
+    "description": "[``botocore``] This release adds support for VMware vSphere tags, enabling customer to protect VMware virtual machines using tag-based policies for AWS tags mapped from vSphere tags. This release also adds support for customer-accessible gateway-hypervisor interaction log and upload bandwidth rate limit schedule.",
+    "type": "api-change"
+  },
+  {
+    "category": "``connect``",
+    "description": "[``botocore``] Added support for \"English - New Zealand\" and \"English - South African\" to be used with Amazon Connect Custom Vocabulary APIs.",
+    "type": "api-change"
+  },
+  {
+    "category": "``ecs``",
+    "description": "[``botocore``] This release adds support for container port ranges in ECS, a new capability that allows customers to provide container port ranges to simplify use cases where multiple ports are in use in a container. This release updates TaskDefinition mutation APIs and the Task description APIs.",
+    "type": "api-change"
+  },
+  {
+    "category": "``eks``",
+    "description": "[``botocore``] Add support for Windows managed nodes groups.",
+    "type": "api-change"
+  },
+  {
+    "category": "``glue``",
+    "description": "[``botocore``] This release adds support for AWS Glue Crawler with native DeltaLake tables, allowing Crawlers to classify Delta Lake format tables and catalog them for query engines to query against.",
+    "type": "api-change"
+  },
+  {
+    "category": "``kinesis``",
+    "description": "[``botocore``] Added StreamARN parameter for Kinesis Data Streams APIs. Added a new opaque pagination token for ListStreams. SDKs will auto-generate Account Endpoint when accessing Kinesis Data Streams.",
+    "type": "api-change"
+  },
+  {
+    "category": "``location``",
+    "description": "[``botocore``] This release adds support for a new style, \"VectorOpenDataStandardLight\" which can be used with the new data source, \"Open Data Maps (Preview)\".",
+    "type": "api-change"
+  },
+  {
+    "category": "``m2``",
+    "description": "[``botocore``] Adds an optional create-only `KmsKeyId` property to Environment and Application resources.",
+    "type": "api-change"
+  },
+  {
+    "category": "``sagemaker``",
+    "description": "[``botocore``] SageMaker Inference Recommender now allows customers to load tests their models on various instance types using private VPC.",
+    "type": "api-change"
+  },
+  {
+    "category": "``securityhub``",
+    "description": "[``botocore``] Added new resource details objects to ASFF, including resources for AwsEc2LaunchTemplate, AwsSageMakerNotebookInstance, AwsWafv2WebAcl and AwsWafv2RuleGroup.",
+    "type": "api-change"
+  },
+  {
+    "category": "``translate``",
+    "description": "[``botocore``] Raised the input byte size limit of the Text field in the TranslateText API to 10000 bytes.",
+    "type": "api-change"
+  }
+]
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.rst b/CHANGELOG.rst
index ac4ca2036d..a1ef181112 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.rst
+++ b/CHANGELOG.rst
@@ -2,6 +2,22 @@
 CHANGELOG
 =========
 
+1.26.31
+=======
+
+* api-change:``backup-gateway``: [``botocore``] This release adds support for VMware vSphere tags, enabling customer to protect VMware virtual machines using tag-based policies for AWS tags mapped from vSphere tags. This release also adds support for customer-accessible gateway-hypervisor interaction log and upload bandwidth rate limit schedule.
+* api-change:``connect``: [``botocore``] Added support for "English - New Zealand" and "English - South African" to be used with Amazon Connect Custom Vocabulary APIs.
+* api-change:``ecs``: [``botocore``] This release adds support for container port ranges in ECS, a new capability that allows customers to provide container port ranges to simplify use cases where multiple ports are in use in a container. This release updates TaskDefinition mutation APIs and the Task description APIs.
+* api-change:``eks``: [``botocore``] Add support for Windows managed nodes groups.
+* api-change:``glue``: [``botocore``] This release adds support for AWS Glue Crawler with native DeltaLake tables, allowing Crawlers to classify Delta Lake format tables and catalog them for query engines to query against.
+* api-change:``kinesis``: [``botocore``] Added StreamARN parameter for Kinesis Data Streams APIs. Added a new opaque pagination token for ListStreams. SDKs will auto-generate Account Endpoint when accessing Kinesis Data Streams.
+* api-change:``location``: [``botocore``] This release adds support for a new style, "VectorOpenDataStandardLight" which can be used with the new data source, "Open Data Maps (Preview)".
+* api-change:``m2``: [``botocore``] Adds an optional create-only `KmsKeyId` property to Environment and Application resources.
+* api-change:``sagemaker``: [``botocore``] SageMaker Inference Recommender now allows customers to load tests their models on various instance types using private VPC.
+* api-change:``securityhub``: [``botocore``] Added new resource details objects to ASFF, including resources for AwsEc2LaunchTemplate, AwsSageMakerNotebookInstance, AwsWafv2WebAcl and AwsWafv2RuleGroup.
+* api-change:``translate``: [``botocore``] Raised the input byte size limit of the Text field in the TranslateText API to 10000 bytes.
+
+
 1.26.30
 =======
 
diff --git a/boto3/__init__.py b/boto3/__init__.py
index 1fe8210bbf..898c274272 100644
--- a/boto3/__init__.py
+++ b/boto3/__init__.py
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 from boto3.session import Session
 
 __author__ = 'Amazon Web Services'
-__version__ = '1.26.30'
+__version__ = '1.26.31'
 
 
 # The default Boto3 session; autoloaded when needed.
diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
index 675153aeda..645d7c535a 100644
--- a/setup.cfg
+++ b/setup.cfg
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ universal = 0
 
 [metadata]
 requires_dist =
-    botocore>=1.29.30,<1.30.0
+    botocore>=1.29.31,<1.30.0
     jmespath>=0.7.1,<2.0.0
     s3transfer>=0.6.0,<0.7.0
 
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index f8b9c1ca66..e788826012 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 
 
 requires = [
-    'botocore>=1.29.30,<1.30.0',
+    'botocore>=1.29.31,<1.30.0',
     'jmespath>=0.7.1,<2.0.0',
     's3transfer>=0.6.0,<0.7.0',
 ]