diff --git a/.release-please-manifest.json b/.release-please-manifest.json
index 9172d96d2d..4023e05246 100644
--- a/.release-please-manifest.json
+++ b/.release-please-manifest.json
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 {
-    ".": "1.61.0"
+    ".": "1.62.0"
 }
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index d45e337840..bc50e76d74 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -3,6 +3,13 @@
 All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 
 
+## [1.62.0](https://github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-python/compare/v1.61.0...v1.62.0) (2026-08-20)
+
+
+### Features
+
+* **generation:** update request builders and models ([#1567](https://github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-python/issues/1567)) ([221856b](https://github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-python/commit/221856b7b27fc95c5d31b797483072ee97b0f0b2))
+
 ## [1.61.0](https://github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-python/compare/v1.60.0...v1.61.0) (2026-08-05)
 
 
diff --git a/msgraph/_version.py b/msgraph/_version.py
index fa5fee7607..5e1202381b 100644
--- a/msgraph/_version.py
+++ b/msgraph/_version.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 # The SDK version
 # x-release-please-start-version
-VERSION: str = '1.61.0'
+VERSION: str = '1.62.0'
 # x-release-please-end
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 0a210171d6..9e14147f88 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ build-backend = "flit_core.buildapi"
 name = "msgraph-sdk"
 # The SDK version
 # x-release-please-start-version
-version = "1.61.0"
+version = "1.62.0"
 # x-release-please-end
 authors = [{name = "Microsoft", email = "graphtooling+python@microsoft.com"}]
 description = "The Microsoft Graph Python SDK"