diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index c0daf7ffaf..4b961d65ea 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
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@@ -12,6 +12,16 @@ We use *breaking :warning:* to mark changes that are not backward compatible (re
 
 ### Fixed
 
+### Added
+
+### Changed
+
+### Removed
+
+## [v0.36.0](https://github.com/thanos-io/thanos/tree/release-0.36) - in progress
+
+### Fixed
+
 - [#7326](https://github.com/thanos-io/thanos/pull/7326) Query: fixing exemplars proxy when querying stores with multiple tenants.
 - [#7403](https://github.com/thanos-io/thanos/pull/7403) Sidecar: fix startup sequence
 - [#7484](https://github.com/thanos-io/thanos/pull/7484) Proxy: fix panic in lazy response set
diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index f723404926..8aa7336bf0 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-0.36.0-dev
+0.37.0-dev