diff --git a/docs/release-notes.md b/docs/release-notes.md
index d479b9b20f..57e6a0f652 100644
--- a/docs/release-notes.md
+++ b/docs/release-notes.md
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
 
 ## Latest Changes
 
+## 0.0.19
+
 ### Fixes
 
 * 🐛 Fix pydantic `EmailStr` support and `max_length` in several String subclasses. PR [#966](https://github.com/tiangolo/sqlmodel/pull/966) by [@estebanx64](https://github.com/estebanx64).
diff --git a/sqlmodel/__init__.py b/sqlmodel/__init__.py
index 397c07f5d2..61ae35f7eb 100644
--- a/sqlmodel/__init__.py
+++ b/sqlmodel/__init__.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-__version__ = "0.0.18"
+__version__ = "0.0.19"
 
 # Re-export from SQLAlchemy
 from sqlalchemy.engine import create_engine as create_engine