diff --git a/.chloggen/bump-dotnet.yaml b/.chloggen/bump-dotnet.yaml
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..2315c57c2f
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+# One of 'breaking', 'deprecation', 'new_component', 'enhancement', 'bug_fix'
+change_type: enhancement
+
+# The name of the component, or a single word describing the area of concern, (e.g. operator, target allocator, github action)
+component: autoinstrumentation
+
+# A brief description of the change. Surround your text with quotes ("") if it needs to start with a backtick (`).
+note: Bump dotnet dependency to 1.0.0-rc.1
+
+# One or more tracking issues related to the change
+issues: [1978]
+
+# (Optional) One or more lines of additional information to render under the primary note.
+# These lines will be padded with 2 spaces and then inserted directly into the document.
+# Use pipe (|) for multiline entries.
+subtext:
diff --git a/autoinstrumentation/dotnet/version.txt b/autoinstrumentation/dotnet/version.txt
index faef31a435..9c218192d1 100644
--- a/autoinstrumentation/dotnet/version.txt
+++ b/autoinstrumentation/dotnet/version.txt
@@ -1 +1 @@
-0.7.0
+1.0.0-rc.1