diff --git a/docs/release-notes.md b/docs/release-notes.md
index 5b54ac674a..cccec23dd4 100644
--- a/docs/release-notes.md
+++ b/docs/release-notes.md
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
 
 ## Latest Changes
 
+## 0.0.48 (2026-10-06)
+
 ### Features
 
 * ✨ Add support for SQLAlchemy 2.1. PR [#2112](https://github.com/fastapi/sqlmodel/pull/2112) by [@tiangolo](https://github.com/tiangolo).
diff --git a/sqlmodel/__init__.py b/sqlmodel/__init__.py
index 87f21f7b4f..4eef6dfa88 100644
--- a/sqlmodel/__init__.py
+++ b/sqlmodel/__init__.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-__version__ = "0.0.47"
+__version__ = "0.0.48"
 
 # Re-export from Pydantic
 from pydantic import Discriminator as Discriminator