diff --git a/CHANGELOG.rst b/CHANGELOG.rst
index 6a779ef3db..7190858503 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.rst
+++ b/CHANGELOG.rst
@@ -5,6 +5,38 @@ Changelog
 
 - Drop support for Python3.10 and Python3.11
 
+v37.1.0 (2026-04-01)
+--------------------
+
+- feat: display scio and toolkit versions in place of django version
+  https://github.com/aboutcode-org/scancode.io/pull/2101
+
+- feat: display layers information (created_by, comment) in tree view
+  https://github.com/aboutcode-org/scancode.io/pull/2102
+
+- feat: enhance the global HTML structure
+  https://github.com/aboutcode-org/scancode.io/pull/2103
+
+- feat: remove the need for context processor and improve base template
+  https://github.com/aboutcode-org/scancode.io/pull/2106
+
+- fix: XSS and duplicate file detection in file upload UI
+  https://github.com/aboutcode-org/scancode.io/pull/2129
+
+- fix: incomplete URL sanitization for Slack webhook detection
+  https://github.com/aboutcode-org/scancode.io/pull/2130
+
+- feat: is_safe_url to mitigate SSRF in URL requests
+  https://github.com/aboutcode-org/scancode.io/pull/2131
+
+- feat: add search to resource tree
+  https://github.com/aboutcode-org/scancode.io/pull/2114
+
+- feat!: use uv and uv.lock for reproducible builds in Docker image
+  https://github.com/aboutcode-org/scancode.io/pull/2134
+
+- feat!: convert Dockerfile to multi-stage build
+
 v37.0.0 (2026-03-11)
 --------------------
 
diff --git a/RELEASE.md b/RELEASE.md
index 5a3eebe990..a13579fb25 100644
--- a/RELEASE.md
+++ b/RELEASE.md
@@ -7,7 +7,8 @@
   - `pyproject.toml`
   - `scancodeio/__init__.py`
   - `CHANGELOG.rst` (set date)
-- Commit and push this branch
+- Run `$ uv lock` to update the version in the `uv.lock` file
+- Commit and push this branch: "chore: bump version to vx.x.x for release"
 - Create a PR and merge once approved
 - Tag and push that tag. This will trigger the `pypi-release.yml` GitHub workflow that 
   takes care of building the dist release files and upload those to pypi:
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 8a7281cf8f..70f736b864 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
 
 [project]
 name = "scancodeio"
-version = "37.0.0"
+version = "37.1.0"
 description = "Automate software composition analysis pipelines"
 readme = "README.rst"
 requires-python = ">=3.12,<3.15"
diff --git a/scancodeio/__init__.py b/scancodeio/__init__.py
index af281b87fa..44fc128513 100644
--- a/scancodeio/__init__.py
+++ b/scancodeio/__init__.py
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
 
 import git
 
-VERSION = "37.0.0"
+VERSION = "37.1.0"
 
 PROJECT_DIR = Path(__file__).resolve().parent
 ROOT_DIR = PROJECT_DIR.parent
diff --git a/uv.lock b/uv.lock
index f0b92d46f7..c1f7254f69 100644
--- a/uv.lock
+++ b/uv.lock
@@ -2884,7 +2884,7 @@ packages = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "scancodeio"
-version = "37.0.0"
+version = "37.1.0"
 source = { editable = "." }
 dependencies = [
     { name = "aboutcode-api-auth" },