diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index e5a0bf8416..f07512ab34 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -15,9 +15,19 @@ Increment the:
 
 ## [Unreleased]
 
+## [1.1.0] 2021-11-19
+
+* [BUILD] build release tarball when nlohmann-json not installed ([#1074](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-cpp/pull/1074))
+* [SDK] Bugfix: regex is neither working on GCC 4.9.x ([#1069](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-cpp/pull/1069))
+* [SDK] Improvement: span_id should not break strict aliasing. ([#1068](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-cpp/pull/1068))
+* [EXAMPLE] OTLP HTTP log example ([#1062](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-cpp/pull/1062))
+* [SDK] OTLP gRPC log export should fail after shutdown ([#1064](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-cpp/pull/1064))
+* [BUILD] Building otlp exporter from the release tarball ([#1056](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-cpp/pull/1056))
+* [METRICS] Move old metrics implementation to different directory, and rename targets to \_deprecated ([#1053](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-cpp/pull/1053))
 * [EXPORTER] Add OTLP/gRPC Log Exporter ([#1048](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-cpp/pull/1048))
 * [EXPORTER] Prometheus Exporter ([#1031](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-cpp/pull/1031))
 * [EXPORTER] Add OTLP/HTTP Log Exporter ([#1030](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-cpp/pull/1030))
+* [SDK] fix: issue 368- consistent namespace scope resolution ([#1008](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-cpp/pull/1008))
 
 ## [1.0.1] 2021-10-21
 
diff --git a/api/include/opentelemetry/version.h b/api/include/opentelemetry/version.h
index b986570e94..b0378bd582 100644
--- a/api/include/opentelemetry/version.h
+++ b/api/include/opentelemetry/version.h
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 #include "opentelemetry/detail/preprocessor.h"
 
 #define OPENTELEMETRY_ABI_VERSION_NO 1
-#define OPENTELEMETRY_VERSION "1.0.1"
+#define OPENTELEMETRY_VERSION "1.1.0"
 #define OPENTELEMETRY_ABI_VERSION OPENTELEMETRY_STRINGIFY(OPENTELEMETRY_ABI_VERSION_NO)
 
 // clang-format off
diff --git a/docs/public/conf.py b/docs/public/conf.py
index 7438a42911..69b4902d18 100644
--- a/docs/public/conf.py
+++ b/docs/public/conf.py
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
 author = 'OpenTelemetry authors'
 
 # The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags
-release = '1.0.1'
+release = '1.1.0'
 
 # Run sphinx on subprojects and copy output
 # -----------------------------------------
diff --git a/sdk/include/opentelemetry/sdk/version/version.h b/sdk/include/opentelemetry/sdk/version/version.h
index 205e9654a2..b540dce329 100644
--- a/sdk/include/opentelemetry/sdk/version/version.h
+++ b/sdk/include/opentelemetry/sdk/version/version.h
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 
 #include "opentelemetry/detail/preprocessor.h"
 
-#define OPENTELEMETRY_SDK_VERSION "1.0.1"
+#define OPENTELEMETRY_SDK_VERSION "1.1.0"
 
 #include "opentelemetry/version.h"
 
diff --git a/sdk/src/version/version.cc b/sdk/src/version/version.cc
index 07c741f78a..9f3b4d8c81 100644
--- a/sdk/src/version/version.cc
+++ b/sdk/src/version/version.cc
@@ -9,8 +9,8 @@ namespace sdk
 namespace version
 {
 const int MAJOR_VERSION     = 1;
-const int MINOR_VERSION     = 0;
-const int PATCH_VERSION     = 1;
+const int MINOR_VERSION     = 1;
+const int PATCH_VERSION     = 0;
 const char *PRE_RELEASE     = "";
 const char *BUILD_METADATA  = "";
 const int COUNT_NEW_COMMITS = 0;