diff --git a/CHANGES.rst b/CHANGES.rst
index be5e104..9064637 100644
--- a/CHANGES.rst
+++ b/CHANGES.rst
@@ -1,6 +1,12 @@
 Changes
 =======
 
+41.0 (2023-08-18)
+-----------------
+
+* Allow HTML5 `figcaption` tag through cleaner (#291)
+* Test `README.rst` from this project (#288)
+
 40.0 (2023-06-16)
 -----------------
 
diff --git a/readme_renderer/__about__.py b/readme_renderer/__about__.py
index 8f66c15..2e09aa4 100644
--- a/readme_renderer/__about__.py
+++ b/readme_renderer/__about__.py
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
 )
 __uri__ = "https://github.com/pypa/readme_renderer"
 
-__version__ = "40.0"
+__version__ = "41.0"
 
 __author__ = "The Python Packaging Authority"
 __email__ = "admin@mail.pypi.org"