diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 064844d5d..5c34e2729 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 
 ## [Unreleased]
 
+## [0.3.36]
+
 - feat: update llama.cpp to ggml-org/llama.cpp@0c1e57098
 
 ## [0.3.35]
diff --git a/llama_cpp/__init__.py b/llama_cpp/__init__.py
index fb263e782..a02ec5af5 100644
--- a/llama_cpp/__init__.py
+++ b/llama_cpp/__init__.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 from .llama_cpp import *
 from .llama import *
 
-__version__ = "0.3.35"
+__version__ = "0.3.36"