diff --git a/docs/news.rst b/docs/news.rst
index 543b3bc4..51bd5a8a 100644
--- a/docs/news.rst
+++ b/docs/news.rst
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Release Notes
 =============
 
-**UNRELEASED**
+**0.41.0 (2023-07-22)**
 
 - Added full support of the build tag syntax to ``wheel tags`` (you can now set a build
   tag like ``123mytag``)
diff --git a/src/wheel/__init__.py b/src/wheel/__init__.py
index 39e37b83..224fe491 100644
--- a/src/wheel/__init__.py
+++ b/src/wheel/__init__.py
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 from __future__ import annotations
 
-__version__ = "0.40.0"
+__version__ = "0.41.0"