diff --git a/docs/release-notes.md b/docs/release-notes.md
index a9946cd213..215f636bdc 100644
--- a/docs/release-notes.md
+++ b/docs/release-notes.md
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 <sup><sup>*Release notes were automatically generated by [Shipkit](http://shipkit.org/)*</sup></sup>
 
+#### 0.3.69
+ - 2019-12-06 - no code changes (no commits) - published to [![Bintray](https://img.shields.io/badge/Bintray-0.3.69-green.svg)](https://bintray.com/linkedin/maven/ambry/0.3.69)
+
 #### 0.3.68
  - 2019-12-06 - [3 commits](https://github.com/linkedin/ambry/compare/v0.3.67...v0.3.68) by [Ankur Agrawal](https://github.com/ankagrawal) (1), [Justin Lin](https://github.com/justinlin-linkedin) (1), [Yingyi Zhang](https://github.com/jsjtzyy) (1) - published to [![Bintray](https://img.shields.io/badge/Bintray-0.3.68-green.svg)](https://bintray.com/linkedin/maven/ambry/0.3.68)
  - Fix a bug in ResponseInfo.release [(#1330)](https://github.com/linkedin/ambry/pull/1330)
diff --git a/version.properties b/version.properties
index abd475a81a..4755eeb9b9 100644
--- a/version.properties
+++ b/version.properties
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 #Version of the produced binaries. This file is intended to be checked-in.
 #It will be automatically bumped by release automation.
-version=0.3.69
-previousVersion=0.3.68
+version=0.3.70
+previousVersion=0.3.69