diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 33705fdc3..66107ce92 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ recommendations.
 - Documentation: <https://reuse.readthedocs.io> and <https://reuse.software>
 - Source code: <https://github.com/fsfe/reuse-tool>
 - PyPI: <https://pypi.python.org/pypi/reuse>
-- REUSE: 3.2
+- REUSE: 3.3
 - Python: 3.8+
 
 ## Table of contents
@@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ To check against the recommendations, use `reuse lint`:
 ~/Projects/reuse-tool $ reuse lint
 [...]
 
-Congratulations! Your project is compliant with version 3.2 of the REUSE Specification :-)
+Congratulations! Your project is compliant with version 3.3 of the REUSE Specification :-)
 ```
 
 This tool can do various more things, detailed in the documentation. Here a
diff --git a/changelog.d/changed/00_spec-3.3.md b/changelog.d/changed/00_spec-3.3.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..a56e320c8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog.d/changed/00_spec-3.3.md
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+- Bumped REUSE Specification version to
+  [version 3.3](https://reuse.software/spec-3.3). This is a small change.
diff --git a/src/reuse/__init__.py b/src/reuse/__init__.py
index 7325e9a71..d73cb9a34 100644
--- a/src/reuse/__init__.py
+++ b/src/reuse/__init__.py
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
 __author__ = "Carmen Bianca Bakker"
 __email__ = "carmenbianca@fsfe.org"
 __license__ = "Apache-2.0 AND CC0-1.0 AND CC-BY-SA-4.0 AND GPL-3.0-or-later"
-__REUSE_version__ = "3.2"
+__REUSE_version__ = "3.3"
 
 _LOGGER = logging.getLogger(__name__)