diff --git a/docs/generated/extracted_rst_api.rst b/docs/generated/extracted_rst_api.rst
index dc79df6fd..29ae229a8 100644
--- a/docs/generated/extracted_rst_api.rst
+++ b/docs/generated/extracted_rst_api.rst
@@ -5784,7 +5784,7 @@
 
 .. py:data:: mitsuba.MI_VERSION
     :type: str
-    :value: 3.6.0
+    :value: 3.6.2
 
 .. py:data:: mitsuba.MI_VERSION_MAJOR
     :type: int
@@ -5796,7 +5796,7 @@
 
 .. py:data:: mitsuba.MI_VERSION_PATCH
     :type: int
-    :value: 0
+    :value: 2
 
 .. py:data:: mitsuba.MI_YEAR
     :type: str
diff --git a/docs/release_notes.rst b/docs/release_notes.rst
index 616446df4..b8a3cae54 100644
--- a/docs/release_notes.rst
+++ b/docs/release_notes.rst
@@ -5,8 +5,9 @@ Being an experimental research framework, Mitsuba 3 does not strictly follow the
 `Semantic Versioning <https://semver.org/>`_ convention. That said, we will
 strive to document breaking API changes in the release notes below.
 
-Unreleased changes
-------------------
+Mitsuba 3.6.2
+-------------
+*January 16, 2025*
 
 - Enable parallel scene loading by default in ``mitsuba`` CLI (regression)
   `[338898d] <https://github.com/mitsuba-renderer/mitsuba3/commit/338898dcf7b26d70523f22a58d4ac474a6cf8e5c>`_
@@ -15,6 +16,7 @@ Unreleased changes
 
 Mitsuba 3.6.1
 -------------
+*January 16, 2025*
 
 - Improve robustness of parallel scene loading
   `[8d48f58] <https://github.com/mitsuba-renderer/mitsuba3/commit/8d48f585f07c6559d9aa346507b5e0c007c02513>`_
diff --git a/include/mitsuba/mitsuba.h b/include/mitsuba/mitsuba.h
index ae5635f6b..d54089735 100644
--- a/include/mitsuba/mitsuba.h
+++ b/include/mitsuba/mitsuba.h
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 
 #define MI_VERSION_MAJOR 3
 #define MI_VERSION_MINOR 6
-#define MI_VERSION_PATCH 1
+#define MI_VERSION_PATCH 2
 
 #define MI_STRINGIFY(x) #x
 #define MI_TOSTRING(x)  MI_STRINGIFY(x)