diff --git a/rust/flexbuffers/Cargo.toml b/rust/flexbuffers/Cargo.toml
index e4fa6fa54ae..b3544676be0 100644
--- a/rust/flexbuffers/Cargo.toml
+++ b/rust/flexbuffers/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "flexbuffers"
-version = "2.0.0"
+version = "24.3.25"
 authors = ["Casper Neo <cneo@google.com>", "FlatBuffers Maintainers"]
 edition = "2018"
 license = "Apache-2.0"
diff --git a/scripts/release.sh b/scripts/release.sh
index 4a426f68703..4beac49e0a0 100755
--- a/scripts/release.sh
+++ b/scripts/release.sh
@@ -68,6 +68,11 @@ sed -i \
   "s/^version = \".*\"$/version = \"$version\"/g" \
   rust/flatbuffers/Cargo.toml
 
+echo "Updating rust/flexbuffers/Cargo.toml..."
+sed -i \
+  "s/^version = \".*\"$/version = \"$version\"/g" \
+  rust/flexbuffers/Cargo.toml
+
 echo "Updating FlatBuffers.podspec..."
 sed -i \
   -e "s/\(s.version\s*= \).*/\1'$version'/" \