From ed63c9781f0cb00ce9ac7697d8b96501ed00c386 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Evan Mattson <evan.mattson@microsoft.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2026 17:50:50 +0900
Subject: [PATCH] Bump Python version to 1.41.0 for a release

---
 python/semantic_kernel/__init__.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/python/semantic_kernel/__init__.py b/python/semantic_kernel/__init__.py
index 4d829a50c250..acbadbffaebe 100644
--- a/python/semantic_kernel/__init__.py
+++ b/python/semantic_kernel/__init__.py
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 from semantic_kernel.kernel import Kernel
 
-__version__ = "1.40.0"
+__version__ = "1.41.0"
 
 DEFAULT_RC_VERSION = f"{__version__}-rc9"