diff --git a/benchmarks/setup.py b/benchmarks/setup.py
index 7baef899cd..fd02df6115 100644
--- a/benchmarks/setup.py
+++ b/benchmarks/setup.py
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ def get_git_commit_hash(length=8):
 
 setup(
     name="triton-kernels-benchmark",
-    version="3.5.0" + get_git_commit_hash(),
+    version="3.6.0" + get_git_commit_hash(),
     packages=find_packages(),
     install_requires=[
         "torch>=2.6",
diff --git a/docs/conf.py b/docs/conf.py
index 22f20282c8..c01b1a8c9e 100644
--- a/docs/conf.py
+++ b/docs/conf.py
@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ def documenter(app, obj, parent):
 autosummary_generate = True
 
 # versioning config
-smv_tag_whitelist = r'^(v3.5.0)$'
+smv_tag_whitelist = r'^(v3.6.0)$'
 smv_branch_whitelist = r'^main$'
 smv_remote_whitelist = None
 smv_released_pattern = r'^tags/.*$'
diff --git a/python/triton/__init__.py b/python/triton/__init__.py
index 573f2e2c05..3d637cf0b2 100644
--- a/python/triton/__init__.py
+++ b/python/triton/__init__.py
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 """isort:skip_file"""
-__version__ = '3.5.0'
+__version__ = '3.6.0'
 
 # ---------------------------------------
 # Note: import order is significant here.
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 1ae2ae7225..d8efcc28ca 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -830,7 +830,7 @@ def get_triton_version_suffix():
 
 
 # keep it separate for easy substitution
-TRITON_VERSION = "3.5.0" + get_triton_version_suffix()
+TRITON_VERSION = "3.6.0" + get_triton_version_suffix()
 
 # Dynamically define supported Python versions and classifiers
 MIN_PYTHON = (3, 10)