diff --git a/sycl/CMakeLists.txt b/sycl/CMakeLists.txt
index f1246e4aaecb9..65bdca121eb8f 100644
--- a/sycl/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/sycl/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -12,8 +12,8 @@ option(SYCL_ADD_DEV_VERSION_POSTFIX "Adds -V postfix to version string" ON)
 list(APPEND CMAKE_MODULE_PATH "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/cmake/modules")
 include(AddSYCLExecutable)
 
-set(SYCL_MAJOR_VERSION 3)
-set(SYCL_MINOR_VERSION 1)
+set(SYCL_MAJOR_VERSION 4)
+set(SYCL_MINOR_VERSION 0)
 set(SYCL_PATCH_VERSION 0)
 set(SYCL_DEV_ABI_VERSION 0)
 if (SYCL_ADD_DEV_VERSION_POSTFIX)
diff --git a/sycl/ReleaseNotes.md b/sycl/ReleaseNotes.md
index 3428d543b4fd9..78c8a6a3cd32a 100644
--- a/sycl/ReleaseNotes.md
+++ b/sycl/ReleaseNotes.md
@@ -112,6 +112,8 @@ Release notes for commit range 5976ff0..1fc0e4f
   - Enabled USM indirect access for interoperability kernels [ebf5c4e]
 
 ## API/ABI breakages
+  - Added missing constructors and propety methods for context, program and
+    sampler[30b8acc]
 
 ## Known issues
   - The format of the object files produced by the compiler can change between
@@ -140,7 +142,7 @@ Release notes for commit range 5976ff0..1fc0e4f
 Release notes for the commit range 75b3dc2..5976ff0
 
 ## New features
-  - Implemented basic support for the [Explicit SIMD extension](./sycl/doc/extensions/ExplicitSIMD/dpcpp-explicit-simd.md)
+  - Implemented basic support for the [Explicit SIMD extension](doc/extensions/ExplicitSIMD/dpcpp-explicit-simd.md)
     for low-level GPU performance tuning [84bf234] [32bf607] [a lot of others]
   - Implemented support for the [SYCL_INTEL_usm_address_spaces extension](https://github.com/intel/llvm/pull/1840)
   - Implemented support for the [Use Pinned Host Memory Property extension](doc/extensions/UsePinnedMemoryProperty/UsePinnedMemoryPropery.adoc) [e5ea144][aee2d6c][396759d]