diff --git a/docs/release_notes.rst b/docs/release_notes.rst
index 24d5cc6a1..b9fe69369 100644
--- a/docs/release_notes.rst
+++ b/docs/release_notes.rst
@@ -5,8 +5,9 @@ Being an experimental research framework, Mitsuba 3 does not strictly follow the
 `Semantic Versioning <https://semver.org/>`_ convention. That said, we will
 strive to document breaking API changes in the release notes below.
 
-Incoming changes
-----------------
+
+Mitsuba 3.5.1
+-------------
 
 Most likely the last release which uses `pybind11 <https://pybind11.readthedocs.io>`_.
 
diff --git a/include/mitsuba/mitsuba.h b/include/mitsuba/mitsuba.h
index a285a027e..3dcc37fa8 100644
--- a/include/mitsuba/mitsuba.h
+++ b/include/mitsuba/mitsuba.h
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 
 #define MI_VERSION_MAJOR 3
 #define MI_VERSION_MINOR 5
-#define MI_VERSION_PATCH 0
+#define MI_VERSION_PATCH 1
 
 #define MI_STRINGIFY(x) #x
 #define MI_TOSTRING(x)  MI_STRINGIFY(x)