diff --git a/doc/release_notes/1_3_3.md b/doc/release_notes/1_3_3.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..d4b82299
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/release_notes/1_3_3.md
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+# 1.3.2
+
+## Bugfixes
+
+* fixing a regression introduced in 1.3.2 associated with the webmock adapter, which expects matchable request bodies to be strings
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diff --git a/lib/httpx/version.rb b/lib/httpx/version.rb
index 0903bb2c..e707f5d2 100644
--- a/lib/httpx/version.rb
+++ b/lib/httpx/version.rb
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # frozen_string_literal: true
 
 module HTTPX
-  VERSION = "1.3.2"
+  VERSION = "1.3.3"
 end