diff --git a/docs/en/docs/release-notes.md b/docs/en/docs/release-notes.md
index 0985a0cea4f16..ebd9de50b7b28 100644
--- a/docs/en/docs/release-notes.md
+++ b/docs/en/docs/release-notes.md
@@ -2,6 +2,9 @@
 
 ## Latest Changes
 
+
+## 0.81.0
+
 ### Features
 
 * ✨ Add ReDoc `<noscript>` warning when JS is disabled. PR [#5074](https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi/pull/5074) by [@evroon](https://github.com/evroon).
diff --git a/fastapi/__init__.py b/fastapi/__init__.py
index 3dc86cadf0deb..3688ec89f021e 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__ = "0.80.0"
+__version__ = "0.81.0"
 
 from starlette import status as status