diff --git a/docarray/__init__.py b/docarray/__init__.py
index c5b7350167..0707f48923 100644
--- a/docarray/__init__.py
+++ b/docarray/__init__.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-__version__ = '0.37.2'
+__version__ = '0.38.0'
 
 import logging
 
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 9229fb0da0..349fb0b146 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [tool.poetry]
 name = "docarray"
-version = '0.37.1'
+version = '0.38.0'
 description='The data structure for multimodal data'
 readme = 'README.md'
 authors=['DocArray']