diff --git a/gpt4all-chat/CHANGELOG.md b/gpt4all-chat/CHANGELOG.md
index 49c0734fd6ed..a3119d0c5597 100644
--- a/gpt4all-chat/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/gpt4all-chat/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 
 The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.1.0/).
 
-## [Unreleased]
+## [3.6.0] - 2024-12-19
 
 ### Added
 - Automatically substitute chat templates that are not compatible with Jinja2Cpp in GGUFs ([#3327](https://github.com/nomic-ai/gpt4all/pull/3327))
@@ -239,6 +239,7 @@ The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.1.0/).
 - Fix several Vulkan resource management issues ([#2694](https://github.com/nomic-ai/gpt4all/pull/2694))
 - Fix crash/hang when some models stop generating, by showing special tokens ([#2701](https://github.com/nomic-ai/gpt4all/pull/2701))
 
+[3.6.0]: https://github.com/nomic-ai/gpt4all/compare/v3.5.3...v3.6.0
 [3.5.3]: https://github.com/nomic-ai/gpt4all/compare/v3.5.2...v3.5.3
 [3.5.2]: https://github.com/nomic-ai/gpt4all/compare/v3.5.1...v3.5.2
 [3.5.1]: https://github.com/nomic-ai/gpt4all/compare/v3.5.0...v3.5.1
diff --git a/gpt4all-chat/CMakeLists.txt b/gpt4all-chat/CMakeLists.txt
index 7947b2d4b91c..d3cf83b8ce98 100644
--- a/gpt4all-chat/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/gpt4all-chat/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -3,10 +3,10 @@ cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.25)  # for try_compile SOURCE_FROM_VAR
 include(../common/common.cmake)
 
 set(APP_VERSION_MAJOR 3)
-set(APP_VERSION_MINOR 5)
-set(APP_VERSION_PATCH 4)
+set(APP_VERSION_MINOR 6)
+set(APP_VERSION_PATCH 0)
 set(APP_VERSION_BASE "${APP_VERSION_MAJOR}.${APP_VERSION_MINOR}.${APP_VERSION_PATCH}")
-set(APP_VERSION "${APP_VERSION_BASE}-dev0")
+set(APP_VERSION "${APP_VERSION_BASE}")
 
 project(gpt4all VERSION ${APP_VERSION_BASE} LANGUAGES CXX C)
 
diff --git a/gpt4all-chat/metadata/models3.json b/gpt4all-chat/metadata/models3.json
index 7a16a2556a0a..3b83d5ac539a 100644
--- a/gpt4all-chat/metadata/models3.json
+++ b/gpt4all-chat/metadata/models3.json
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
     "name": "Reasoner v1",
     "filename": "qwen2.5-coder-7b-instruct-q4_0.gguf",
     "filesize": "4431390720",
-    "requires": "3.5.4-dev0",
+    "requires": "3.6.0",
     "ramrequired": "8",
     "parameters": "8 billion",
     "quant": "q4_0",