diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 5b2f18d14d8..ca7f1637bba 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ Intel® Neural Compressor
 <h3> An open-source Python library supporting popular model compression techniques on all mainstream deep learning frameworks (TensorFlow, PyTorch, and ONNX Runtime)</h3>
 
 [![python](https://img.shields.io/badge/python-3.8%2B-blue)](https://github.com/intel/neural-compressor)
-[![version](https://img.shields.io/badge/release-3.5-green)](https://github.com/intel/neural-compressor/releases)
+[![version](https://img.shields.io/badge/release-3.6-green)](https://github.com/intel/neural-compressor/releases)
 [![license](https://img.shields.io/badge/license-Apache%202-blue)](https://github.com/intel/neural-compressor/blob/master/LICENSE)
 [![coverage](https://img.shields.io/badge/coverage-85%25-green)](https://github.com/intel/neural-compressor)
 [![Downloads](https://static.pepy.tech/personalized-badge/neural-compressor?period=total&units=international_system&left_color=grey&right_color=green&left_text=downloads)](https://pepy.tech/project/neural-compressor)
diff --git a/examples/tensorflow/nlp/large_language_models/quantization/ptq/gpt-j/requirements.txt b/examples/tensorflow/nlp/large_language_models/quantization/ptq/gpt-j/requirements.txt
index 23c79d8bbd3..5b726cbb2e9 100644
--- a/examples/tensorflow/nlp/large_language_models/quantization/ptq/gpt-j/requirements.txt
+++ b/examples/tensorflow/nlp/large_language_models/quantization/ptq/gpt-j/requirements.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-tensorflow==2.12
+tensorflow==2.12.1
 transformers
 datasets==2.17
 numpy
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diff --git a/examples/tensorflow/nlp/large_language_models/quantization/ptq/smoothquant/requirements.txt b/examples/tensorflow/nlp/large_language_models/quantization/ptq/smoothquant/requirements.txt
index 8e5871fe7fd..653f02fe8b3 100644
--- a/examples/tensorflow/nlp/large_language_models/quantization/ptq/smoothquant/requirements.txt
+++ b/examples/tensorflow/nlp/large_language_models/quantization/ptq/smoothquant/requirements.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 tensorflow==2.15
 datasets
-transformers==4.52.1
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+transformers==4.53.0
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diff --git a/neural_compressor/version.py b/neural_compressor/version.py
index 904cdb46e88..6f857d8faca 100644
--- a/neural_compressor/version.py
+++ b/neural_compressor/version.py
@@ -15,4 +15,4 @@
 # See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 # limitations under the License.
 """Intel® Neural Compressor: An open-source Python library supporting popular model compression techniques."""
-__version__ = "3.5"
+__version__ = "3.6"