diff --git a/docs/source/release_notes.rst b/docs/source/release_notes.rst
index acb60717e0..60f2c789ed 100644
--- a/docs/source/release_notes.rst
+++ b/docs/source/release_notes.rst
@@ -1,6 +1,20 @@
 Release Notes
 -------------
+
 **Future Releases**
+    * Enhancements
+    * Fixes
+    * Changes
+    * Documentation Changes
+    * Testing Changes
+
+
+.. warning::
+
+    **Breaking Changes**
+
+
+**v0.43.0 Jan. 25, 2022**
     * Enhancements
         * Updated new ``NullDataCheck`` to return a warning and suggest an action to impute columns with null values :pr:`3197`
         * Updated ``make_pipeline_from_actions`` to handle null column imputation :pr:`3237`
diff --git a/evalml/__init__.py b/evalml/__init__.py
index 0ae8248f87..696b61c387 100644
--- a/evalml/__init__.py
+++ b/evalml/__init__.py
@@ -23,4 +23,4 @@
 warnings.filterwarnings("ignore", category=FutureWarning)
 warnings.filterwarnings("ignore", category=DeprecationWarning)
 
-__version__ = "0.42.0"
+__version__ = "0.43.0"
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index e0f6df311b..eb4911b4a9 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 
 setup(
     name='evalml',
-    version='0.42.0',
+    version='0.43.0',
     author='Alteryx, Inc.',
     author_email='open_source_support@alteryx.com',
     description='EvalML is an AutoML library that builds, optimizes, and evaluates machine learning pipelines using domain-specific objective functions.',