diff --git a/.release-please-manifest.json b/.release-please-manifest.json
index e18ee07..466df71 100644
--- a/.release-please-manifest.json
+++ b/.release-please-manifest.json
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 {
-  ".": "0.0.0"
+  ".": "0.1.0"
 }
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 7ce59af..62c8d54 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,9 +1,11 @@
 # Changelog
 
-User-visible API changes. API releases are versioned independently from the frontend. This repository has no previously published release history; `0.0.0` is only a bootstrap marker, not a historical release.
+User-visible API changes. API releases are versioned independently from the frontend.
 
 ## [Unreleased]
 
+## 0.1.0 (2026-09-19)
+
 ### Added
 
 - Delete an owned document through `DELETE /api/documents/{id}`, including its invoice, invoice lines, processing runs and extracted fields.
diff --git a/docs/releases.md b/docs/releases.md
index 521b21b..d1c2577 100644
--- a/docs/releases.md
+++ b/docs/releases.md
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ The API and frontend have independent versions and tags. Release Please uses the
 
 ## First release
 
-No API release has previously been published. `0.0.0` is an unpublished bootstrap marker; the first feature release is expected to be `0.1.0`. The bootstrap commit `36a04fdb52708c6a82cc627adeaf1e407272e379` excludes earlier history while including the already-deployed document deletion change. Do not tag `0.0.0` or invent historical release dates. The bootstrap SHA only applies before the first published release.
+The API release history starts at `0.1.0`. `0.0.0` was an unpublished bootstrap marker. The bootstrap commit `36a04fdb52708c6a82cc627adeaf1e407272e379` excludes earlier history while including the already-deployed document deletion change. Do not tag `0.0.0` or invent historical release dates. The bootstrap SHA only applies before the first published release.
 
 ## Automated preparation
 
diff --git a/version.txt b/version.txt
index 77d6f4c..6e8bf73 100644
--- a/version.txt
+++ b/version.txt
@@ -1 +1 @@
-0.0.0
+0.1.0