diff --git a/.release-please-manifest.json b/.release-please-manifest.json
index 05b60243f7..18ec56b0d8 100644
--- a/.release-please-manifest.json
+++ b/.release-please-manifest.json
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 {
-  ".": "0.37.0"
+  ".": "0.37.1"
 }
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index d270a008d5..c45dc30691 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -5,6 +5,16 @@ All notable changes to rtk (Rust Token Killer) will be documented in this file.
 The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/),
 and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html).
 
+## [0.37.1](https://github.com/murphytek/rtk/compare/v0.37.0...v0.37.1) (2026-05-30)
+
+
+### Bug Fixes
+
+* **grep:** treat bare `|` as literal pipe (BRE), not rg alternation ([#6](https://github.com/murphytek/rtk/issues/6)) ([f30963e](https://github.com/murphytek/rtk/commit/f30963ee2f93bce9e14f96b3dc9793e1be5bad57))
+* **read:** keep true file line numbers under --tail-lines -n ([#12](https://github.com/murphytek/rtk/issues/12)) ([95d20f1](https://github.com/murphytek/rtk/commit/95d20f15fca75a0f351e01d958e3b31cef0d1b27))
+* **tree:** stop dropping entries whose names contain 'director'+'file' ([#9](https://github.com/murphytek/rtk/issues/9)) ([d898926](https://github.com/murphytek/rtk/commit/d89892670f1c6f0a7cc6c5a9914e9e4d26c949a9))
+* **wc:** preserve filenames containing spaces in wc filter ([#8](https://github.com/murphytek/rtk/issues/8)) ([54b1216](https://github.com/murphytek/rtk/commit/54b12168b763d351290d9f873d9825a4a14a8ccf))
+
 ## [0.37.0](https://github.com/murphytek/rtk/compare/v0.36.0...v0.37.0) (2026-05-01)
 
 
diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 29a0414509..f249792619 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -892,7 +892,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "rtk"
-version = "0.37.0"
+version = "0.37.1"
 dependencies = [
  "anyhow",
  "automod",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 778af25eee..8da192c91f 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "rtk"
-version = "0.37.0"
+version = "0.37.1"
 edition = "2021"
 authors = ["Patrick Szymkowiak"]
 description = "Rust Token Killer - High-performance CLI proxy to minimize LLM token consumption"