diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 29a2f6402..24dcf08e6 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+## v3.97.0
 * Added immutable range iterators from go1.23 into query stats to iterate over query phases and accessed tables without query stats object mutation
 
 ## v3.96.2
diff --git a/internal/version/version.go b/internal/version/version.go
index 64a526540..88c107b96 100644
--- a/internal/version/version.go
+++ b/internal/version/version.go
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@ package version
 
 const (
 	Major = "3"
-	Minor = "96"
-	Patch = "2"
+	Minor = "97"
+	Patch = "0"
 
 	Package = "ydb-go-sdk"
 )