diff --git a/release/README.md b/release/README.md
index f2b798977..0e42bcc90 100644
--- a/release/README.md
+++ b/release/README.md
@@ -8,4 +8,4 @@
 - Upload wheel to pypi
 - Update docker-releases repo
 - Update `latest` tag on https://hub.docker.com/r/mitmproxy/mitmproxy/~/settings/automated-builds/
-- Bump the version immediately afterwards
+- Bump the version in https://github.com/mitmproxy/mitmproxy/blob/master/mitmproxy/version.py and update https://github.com/mitmproxy/mitmproxy/blob/master/mitmproxy/io_compat.py in the next commit