diff --git a/.release-please-manifest.json b/.release-please-manifest.json
index 8d9ea6af1f..a00976fc6f 100644
--- a/.release-please-manifest.json
+++ b/.release-please-manifest.json
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 {
-  ".": "6.20.0"
+  ".": "6.21.0"
 }
diff --git a/HISTORY.md b/HISTORY.md
index e479b80b73..e2a198ac35 100644
--- a/HISTORY.md
+++ b/HISTORY.md
@@ -2,6 +2,13 @@
 
 All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file. See [standard-version](https://github.com/conventional-changelog/standard-version) for commit guidelines.
 
+## [6.21.0](https://github.com/mongodb/node-mongodb-native/compare/v6.20.0...v6.21.0) (2025-11-05)
+
+
+### Features
+
+* **NODE-7230:** add deprecations of items to be removed in v7 ([#4774](https://github.com/mongodb/node-mongodb-native/issues/4774)) ([5104c0f](https://github.com/mongodb/node-mongodb-native/commit/5104c0fc9a931d778e9741cce8bdbf7f998499fa))
+
 ## [6.20.0](https://github.com/mongodb/node-mongodb-native/compare/v6.19.0...v6.20.0) (2025-09-17)
 
 
diff --git a/package-lock.json b/package-lock.json
index 00d285e620..d70037bee4 100644
--- a/package-lock.json
+++ b/package-lock.json
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 {
   "name": "mongodb",
-  "version": "6.20.0",
+  "version": "6.21.0",
   "lockfileVersion": 3,
   "requires": true,
   "packages": {
     "": {
       "name": "mongodb",
-      "version": "6.20.0",
+      "version": "6.21.0",
       "license": "Apache-2.0",
       "dependencies": {
         "@mongodb-js/saslprep": "^1.3.0",
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 700b0a349f..2b07aea923 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "mongodb",
-  "version": "6.20.0",
+  "version": "6.21.0",
   "description": "The official MongoDB driver for Node.js",
   "main": "lib/index.js",
   "files": [