diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
index b7ada2b7..157e6ef5 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -47,6 +47,22 @@ poetry run pre-commit install
 
 ### Publish release
 
+#### Release script
+
+Make sure you have your PyPi API token setup in your poetry config. If not, you can set it up by running:
+
+```sh
+poetry config pypi-token.pypi $your-api-token
+```
+
+Run the release script:
+
+```sh
+poetry run release
+```
+
+#### Manual steps (for prepatch versions)
+
 1. `poetry version patch`
    - `poetry version prepatch` for pre-release versions
 2. `poetry install`
diff --git a/langfuse/version.py b/langfuse/version.py
index ee3f4875..9e1d2872 100644
--- a/langfuse/version.py
+++ b/langfuse/version.py
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 """@private"""
 
-__version__ = "2.35.0"
+__version__ = "2.35.1"
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 772bd6d3..f9b7d897 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [tool.poetry]
 name = "langfuse"
-version = "2.35.0"
+version = "2.35.1"
 description = "A client library for accessing langfuse"
 authors = ["langfuse <developers@langfuse.com>"]
 license = "MIT"
@@ -64,3 +64,6 @@ build-backend = "poetry.core.masonry.api"
 log_cli = true
 
 [tool.poetry_bumpversion.file."langfuse/version.py"]
+
+[tool.poetry.scripts]
+release = "scripts.release:main"
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