diff --git a/docs/release_notes.rst b/docs/release_notes.rst
index 7e2157643..98783c096 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 3.3.0
+-------------
 
 - Upgrade Dr.Jit to v0.4.2
 - Emitters' members are opaque (fixes long JIT compilation times)
diff --git a/include/mitsuba/mitsuba.h b/include/mitsuba/mitsuba.h
index f717ecf30..711489802 100644
--- a/include/mitsuba/mitsuba.h
+++ b/include/mitsuba/mitsuba.h
@@ -9,8 +9,8 @@
 #pragma once
 
 #define MI_VERSION_MAJOR 3
-#define MI_VERSION_MINOR 2
-#define MI_VERSION_PATCH 1
+#define MI_VERSION_MINOR 3
+#define MI_VERSION_PATCH 0
 
 #define MI_STRINGIFY(x) #x
 #define MI_TOSTRING(x)  MI_STRINGIFY(x)