diff --git a/docarray/__init__.py b/docarray/__init__.py
index 992d3a0acf..392a71cf25 100644
--- a/docarray/__init__.py
+++ b/docarray/__init__.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-__version__ = '0.38.1'
+__version__ = '0.39.0'
 
 import logging
 
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 6d1103534b..bdf3b7ff8f 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [tool.poetry]
 name = "docarray"
-version = '0.38.0'
+version = '0.39.0'
 description='The data structure for multimodal data'
 readme = 'README.md'
 authors=['DocArray']