diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 470b32a50..179d89922 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -5,14 +5,17 @@
 <!-- next-header -->
 UNRELEASED
 ===================
- * see https://github.com/kube-rs/kube/compare/0.96.0...main
+ * see https://github.com/kube-rs/kube/compare/0.97.0...main
+
+0.97.0 / 2024-11-20
+===================
 
 [0.96.0](https://github.com/kube-rs/kube/releases/tag/0.96.0) / 2024-10-09
 ===================
 <!-- Release notes generated using configuration in .github/release.yml at 0.96.0 -->
 ## Highlights
-- **[Features](https://kube.rs/features/)**: `webpki-roots` added #1323, and [predicates](https://docs.rs/kube/latest/kube/runtime/utils/predicates/index.html) no longer require `unstable-runtime` #1578
-- **Local auth**: improve leniency/kubectl-alignment #1595, remove http proxy vars #1520
+- **[Features](https://kube.rs/features/)**: `webpki-roots` added [#1323](https://github.com/kube-rs/kube/issues/1323), and [predicates](https://docs.rs/kube/latest/kube/runtime/utils/predicates/index.html) no longer require `unstable-runtime` [#1578](https://github.com/kube-rs/kube/issues/1578)
+- **Local auth**: improve leniency/kubectl-alignment [#1595](https://github.com/kube-rs/kube/issues/1595), remove http proxy vars [#1520](https://github.com/kube-rs/kube/issues/1520)
 - **Dependencies**: upgrades to `tower` and `secrecy`, and `derivative` swapped for `educe`
 
 ## What's Changed
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index a103d2d15..14fc4e283 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ members = [
 ]
 
 [workspace.package]
-version = "0.96.0"
+version = "0.97.0"
 authors = [
   "clux <sszynrae@gmail.com>",
   "Natalie Klestrup Röijezon <nat@nullable.se>",
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index d432acc29..54b7c0fea 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ Select a version of `kube` along with the generated [k8s-openapi](https://github
 
 ```toml
 [dependencies]
-kube = { version = "0.96.0", features = ["runtime", "derive"] }
+kube = { version = "0.97.0", features = ["runtime", "derive"] }
 k8s-openapi = { version = "0.23.0", features = ["latest"] }
 ```
 
@@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ By default [rustls](https://github.com/rustls/rustls) is used for TLS, but `open
 
 ```toml
 [dependencies]
-kube = { version = "0.96.0", default-features = false, features = ["client", "openssl-tls"] }
+kube = { version = "0.97.0", default-features = false, features = ["client", "openssl-tls"] }
 k8s-openapi = { version = "0.23.0", features = ["latest"] }
 ```
 
diff --git a/e2e/Cargo.toml b/e2e/Cargo.toml
index 3fd7b0a09..a37539cd6 100644
--- a/e2e/Cargo.toml
+++ b/e2e/Cargo.toml
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ openssl = ["kube/openssl-tls"]
 anyhow.workspace = true
 tracing.workspace = true
 tracing-subscriber.workspace = true
-kube = { path = "../kube", version = "^0.96.0", default-features = false, features = ["client", "runtime", "ws", "admission", "gzip"] }
+kube = { path = "../kube", version = "^0.97.0", default-features = false, features = ["client", "runtime", "ws", "admission", "gzip"] }
 k8s-openapi.workspace = true
 serde_json.workspace = true
 tokio = { workspace = true, features = ["full"] }
diff --git a/examples/Cargo.toml b/examples/Cargo.toml
index d00395fbf..25add42a2 100644
--- a/examples/Cargo.toml
+++ b/examples/Cargo.toml
@@ -29,8 +29,8 @@ anyhow.workspace = true
 futures = { workspace = true, features = ["async-await"] }
 jsonpath-rust.workspace = true
 jsonptr.workspace = true
-kube = { path = "../kube", version = "^0.96.0", default-features = false, features = ["admission"] }
-kube-derive = { path = "../kube-derive", version = "^0.96.0", default-features = false } # only needed to opt out of schema
+kube = { path = "../kube", version = "^0.97.0", default-features = false, features = ["admission"] }
+kube-derive = { path = "../kube-derive", version = "^0.97.0", default-features = false } # only needed to opt out of schema
 k8s-openapi.workspace = true
 serde = { workspace = true, features = ["derive"] }
 serde_json.workspace = true
diff --git a/kube-client/Cargo.toml b/kube-client/Cargo.toml
index 8b465ddc7..8520e278e 100644
--- a/kube-client/Cargo.toml
+++ b/kube-client/Cargo.toml
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ rustls = { workspace = true, optional = true }
 rustls-pemfile = { workspace = true, optional = true }
 bytes = { workspace = true, optional = true }
 tokio = { workspace = true, features = ["time", "signal", "sync"], optional = true }
-kube-core = { path = "../kube-core", version = "=0.96.0" }
+kube-core = { path = "../kube-core", version = "=0.97.0" }
 jsonpath-rust = { workspace = true, optional = true }
 tokio-util = { workspace = true, features = ["io", "codec"], optional = true }
 hyper = { workspace = true, features = ["client", "http1"], optional = true }
diff --git a/kube-derive/README.md b/kube-derive/README.md
index b2ce896c6..d7536a471 100644
--- a/kube-derive/README.md
+++ b/kube-derive/README.md
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ Add the `derive` feature to `kube`:
 
 ```toml
 [dependencies]
-kube = { version = "0.96.0", feature = ["derive"] }
+kube = { version = "0.97.0", feature = ["derive"] }
 ```
 
 ## Usage
diff --git a/kube-runtime/Cargo.toml b/kube-runtime/Cargo.toml
index a6749c409..a89492384 100644
--- a/kube-runtime/Cargo.toml
+++ b/kube-runtime/Cargo.toml
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ rust.unsafe_code = "forbid"
 
 [dependencies]
 futures = { workspace = true, features = ["async-await"] }
-kube-client = { path = "../kube-client", version = "=0.96.0", default-features = false, features = ["jsonpatch", "client"] }
+kube-client = { path = "../kube-client", version = "=0.97.0", default-features = false, features = ["jsonpatch", "client"] }
 educe = { workspace = true, features = ["Clone", "Debug", "Hash", "PartialEq"] }
 serde.workspace = true
 ahash.workspace = true
diff --git a/kube/Cargo.toml b/kube/Cargo.toml
index 8425973ab..c3a236e98 100644
--- a/kube/Cargo.toml
+++ b/kube/Cargo.toml
@@ -48,10 +48,10 @@ rustdoc-args = ["--cfg", "docsrs"]
 workspace = true
 
 [dependencies]
-kube-derive = { path = "../kube-derive", version = "=0.96.0", optional = true }
-kube-core = { path = "../kube-core", version = "=0.96.0" }
-kube-client = { path = "../kube-client", version = "=0.96.0", default-features = false, optional = true }
-kube-runtime = { path = "../kube-runtime", version = "=0.96.0", optional = true}
+kube-derive = { path = "../kube-derive", version = "=0.97.0", optional = true }
+kube-core = { path = "../kube-core", version = "=0.97.0" }
+kube-client = { path = "../kube-client", version = "=0.97.0", default-features = false, optional = true }
+kube-runtime = { path = "../kube-runtime", version = "=0.97.0", optional = true}
 # Not used directly, but required by resolver 2.0 to ensure that the k8s-openapi dependency
 # is considered part of the "deps" graph rather than just the "dev-deps" graph
 k8s-openapi.workspace = true