diff --git a/docs/release-notes.md b/docs/release-notes.md
index 138ed4f2fe..47f0253d39 100644
--- a/docs/release-notes.md
+++ b/docs/release-notes.md
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
 
 ## Latest Changes
 
+## 0.0.39 (2026-06-25)
+
 ### Features
 
 * ✨ Add SQLModel Agent Library Skill, install with `uvx library-skills`. PR [#2017](https://github.com/fastapi/sqlmodel/pull/2017) by [@tiangolo](https://github.com/tiangolo).
diff --git a/sqlmodel/__init__.py b/sqlmodel/__init__.py
index 8e3cdaae3b..f7359f0c27 100644
--- a/sqlmodel/__init__.py
+++ b/sqlmodel/__init__.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-__version__ = "0.0.38"
+__version__ = "0.0.39"
 
 # Re-export from SQLAlchemy
 from sqlalchemy.engine import create_engine as create_engine