diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index d7d5394..8d404bb 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ All notable changes to lcode are documented here. The format follows
 
 ## [Unreleased]
 
+## [0.38.0] - 2026-10-21
+
 ### Added
 
 - The screenshot tool can click first. For a Python Qt program, `actions` run before the picture,
@@ -853,7 +855,8 @@ First public release.
 - `AGENTS.md` project instructions and `/init` to generate them.
 - One-line installer for Linux and macOS.
 
-[Unreleased]: https://github.com/nasser1941/lcode/compare/v0.37.0...HEAD
+[Unreleased]: https://github.com/nasser1941/lcode/compare/v0.38.0...HEAD
+[0.38.0]: https://github.com/nasser1941/lcode/compare/v0.37.0...v0.38.0
 [0.37.0]: https://github.com/nasser1941/lcode/compare/v0.36.0...v0.37.0
 [0.36.0]: https://github.com/nasser1941/lcode/compare/v0.35.1...v0.36.0
 [0.35.1]: https://github.com/nasser1941/lcode/compare/v0.35.0...v0.35.1
diff --git a/docs/quickstart.md b/docs/quickstart.md
index dd91352..4c5f157 100644
--- a/docs/quickstart.md
+++ b/docs/quickstart.md
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ lcode
 
 ```text
 ╭──────────────────────────────────────────────╮
-│ lcode v0.37.0 — local coding agent           │
+│ lcode v0.38.0 — local coding agent           │
 │                                              │
 │ model    lcode-qwen3.6-35b                   │
 │ context  256K tokens                         │
diff --git a/src/lcode/__init__.py b/src/lcode/__init__.py
index 4c6b82e..cba501e 100644
--- a/src/lcode/__init__.py
+++ b/src/lcode/__init__.py
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 From a program: `from lcode import Session` (see lcode.api).
 """
 
-__version__ = "0.37.0"
+__version__ = "0.38.0"
 
 API = ("Session", "Result", "Options", "SetupError")