diff --git a/CHANGES.rst b/CHANGES.rst
index 082fe78dd15..f064f4895ce 100644
--- a/CHANGES.rst
+++ b/CHANGES.rst
@@ -14,6 +14,20 @@ Changelog
 
 .. towncrier release notes start
 
+3.7.4.post0 (2021-03-06)
+========================
+
+Misc
+----
+
+- Bumped upper bound of the ``chardet`` runtime dependency
+  to allow their v4.0 version stream.
+  `#5366 <https://github.com/aio-libs/aiohttp/issues/5366>`_
+
+
+----
+
+
 3.7.4 (2021-02-25)
 ==================
 
diff --git a/aiohttp/__init__.py b/aiohttp/__init__.py
index 23cd5c9d6de..12c73f4a321 100644
--- a/aiohttp/__init__.py
+++ b/aiohttp/__init__.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-__version__ = "3.7.4"
+__version__ = "3.7.4.post0"
 
 from typing import Tuple