diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index e4d947c2da..10b03909e6 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## 40.1.0 - 2018-08-10
+* [#656](https://github.com/stripe/stripe-go/pull/656) Expose new `ValidatePayload` functions for validating incoming payloads without constructing an event
+
 ## 40.0.2 - 2018-08-07
 * [#652](https://github.com/stripe/stripe-go/pull/652) Change the type of `FileUpload.Links` to `FileLinkList` (this is a bug fix given that the previous type would never have worked)
 
diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index 2bfb4c4682..312a84c920 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-40.0.2
+40.1.0
diff --git a/stripe.go b/stripe.go
index b340ed73a7..64c6d8579b 100644
--- a/stripe.go
+++ b/stripe.go
@@ -785,7 +785,7 @@ const apiURL = "https://api.stripe.com"
 const apiversion = "2018-07-27"
 
 // clientversion is the binding version
-const clientversion = "40.0.2"
+const clientversion = "40.1.0"
 
 // defaultHTTPTimeout is the default timeout on the http.Client used by the library.
 // This is chosen to be consistent with the other Stripe language libraries and