diff --git a/.zenodo.json b/.zenodo.json
index e57c6ea84e9..340dcb58858 100644
--- a/.zenodo.json
+++ b/.zenodo.json
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 {
   "description": "Experiment-independent toolkit for (charged) particle track reconstruction in (high energy) physics experiments implemented in modern C++ ",
   "license": "MPL-2.0",
-  "title": "acts-project/acts: v36.2.0",
-  "version": "v36.2.0",
+  "title": "acts-project/acts: v36.3.0",
+  "version": "v36.3.0",
   "upload_type": "software",
   "creators": [
     {
diff --git a/CITATION.cff b/CITATION.cff
index 910eade5312..e5961b2113b 100644
--- a/CITATION.cff
+++ b/CITATION.cff
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ authors:
   family-names: Russo
   affiliation: CERN / TU Wien
   orcid: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-8975-2245
-version: 10.0.0
+version: v36.3.0
 date-released: 2021-07-28
 repository-code: https://github.com/acts-project/acts
 license: MPL-2.0
diff --git a/version_number b/version_number
index b7c5a4bfb0b..483db828e8d 100644
--- a/version_number
+++ b/version_number
@@ -1 +1 @@
-36.2.0
+36.3.0