diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 794d271795b10..047790071d527 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -291,6 +291,7 @@
 
 
 
+
 
 
 # Change Logs
@@ -17171,3 +17172,24 @@ Jina is released on every Friday evening. The PyPi package and Docker Image will
  - [[```425e5ea6```](https://github.com/jina-ai/jina/commit/425e5ea6a0f687f78d27b95e2f107c3319f499d2)] __-__ __docs__: update TOC (*Jina Dev Bot*)
  - [[```6ddc3406```](https://github.com/jina-ai/jina/commit/6ddc34062c9a87075010c13136b1ba7f4902e666)] __-__ __version__: the next version will be 3.27.20 (*Jina Dev Bot*)
 
+<a name=release-note-3-28-0></a>
+## Release Note (`3.28.0`)
+
+> Release time: 2024-11-12 08:25:46
+
+
+
+🙇 We'd like to thank all contributors for this new release! In particular,
+ Joan Fontanals,  Jina Dev Bot,  🙇
+
+
+### 🏁 Unit Test and CICD
+
+ - [[```7f3ad55d```](https://github.com/jina-ai/jina/commit/7f3ad55dc51a3398caf7e341150d15685b0065e0)] __-__ unblock grpcio version (#6198) (*Joan Fontanals*)
+
+### 🍹 Other Improvements
+
+ - [[```6a472c8c```](https://github.com/jina-ai/jina/commit/6a472c8c49a9acbd53f49955994e349a15430fac)] __-__ update version (#6219) (*Joan Fontanals*)
+ - [[```80996ca3```](https://github.com/jina-ai/jina/commit/80996ca3a1395221fe1e8fbbb14ab45a9ea2b5af)] __-__ __docs__: update TOC (*Jina Dev Bot*)
+ - [[```6edbbb14```](https://github.com/jina-ai/jina/commit/6edbbb147eaacf7cc3248b7e10143dba6f8ece49)] __-__ __version__: the next version will be 3.27.21 (*Jina Dev Bot*)
+
diff --git a/docs/_versions.json b/docs/_versions.json
index 382ea077a2a40..b3921171eb73a 100644
--- a/docs/_versions.json
+++ b/docs/_versions.json
@@ -1 +1 @@
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\ No newline at end of file
+[{"version": "v3.28.0"}, {"version": "v3.27.20"}, {"version": "v3.27.19"}, {"version": "v3.27.18"}, {"version": "v3.27.17"}, {"version": "v3.27.16"}, {"version": "v3.27.15"}, {"version": "v3.27.14"}, {"version": "v3.27.13"}, {"version": "v3.27.12"}, {"version": "v3.27.11"}, {"version": "v3.27.10"}, {"version": "v3.27.9"}, {"version": "v3.27.8"}, {"version": "v3.27.7"}, {"version": "v3.27.6"}, {"version": "v3.27.5"}, {"version": "v3.27.4"}, {"version": "v3.27.3"}, {"version": "v3.27.2"}, {"version": "v3.27.1"}, {"version": "v3.27.0"}, {"version": "v3.26.0"}, {"version": "v3.25.2"}, {"version": "v3.25.1"}, {"version": "v3.25.0"}, {"version": "v3.24.1"}, {"version": "v3.24.0"}, {"version": "v3.23.5"}, {"version": "v3.23.4"}, {"version": "v3.23.3"}, {"version": "v3.23.2"}, {"version": "v3.23.1"}, {"version": "v3.23.0"}, {"version": "v3.22.4"}, {"version": "v3.22.3"}, {"version": "v3.22.2"}, {"version": "v3.22.1"}, {"version": "v3.22.0"}, {"version": "v3.21.1"}, {"version": "v3.21.0"}, {"version": "v3.20.3"}, {"version": "v3.20.2"}, {"version": "v3.20.1"}, {"version": "v3.20.0"}, {"version": "v3.19.1"}, {"version": "v3.19.0"}, {"version": "v3.18.0"}, {"version": "v3.17.0"}, {"version": "v3.16.1"}, {"version": "v3.16.0"}, {"version": "v3.15.2"}, {"version": "v3.15.0"}, {"version": "v3.14.1"}, {"version": "v3.14.0"}, {"version": "v3.13.1"}, {"version": "v3.13.0"}, {"version": "v3.12.0"}, {"version": "v3.11.0"}, {"version": "v3.10.1"}, {"version": "v3.10.0"}, {"version": "v3.9.3"}, {"version": "v3.9.2"}, {"version": "v3.9.1"}, {"version": "v3.9.0"}, {"version": "v3.8.4"}, {"version": "v3.8.0"}, {"version": "v3.7.14"}, {"version": "v3.7.0"}, {"version": "v3.6.16"}, {"version": "v3.6.1"}, {"version": "v3.6.0"}, {"version": "v3.5.0"}, {"version": "v3.4.11"}, {"version": "v3.4.0"}, {"version": "v3.3.25"}, {"version": "v3.3.0"}, {"version": "v3.2.10"}, {"version": "v3.2.0"}]
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/jina/__init__.py b/jina/__init__.py
index 3b20582b2a19a..a52119160d430 100644
--- a/jina/__init__.py
+++ b/jina/__init__.py
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ def _ignore_google_warnings():
 # do not change this line manually this is managed by git tag and updated on every release
 # NOTE: this represents the NEXT release version
 
-__version__ = '3.28.0'
+__version__ = '3.28.1'
 
 # do not change this line manually
 # this is managed by proto/build-proto.sh and updated on every execution
diff --git a/jina/resources/extra-requirements.txt b/jina/resources/extra-requirements.txt
index 025ccc10625f7..9df83c9a8310b 100644
--- a/jina/resources/extra-requirements.txt
+++ b/jina/resources/extra-requirements.txt
@@ -27,9 +27,9 @@
 
 numpy:                      core
 protobuf>=3.19.0:           core
-grpcio>=1.46.0,<=1.57.0:    core
-grpcio-reflection>=1.46.0,<=1.57.0:  core
-grpcio-health-checking>=1.46.0,<=1.57.0:  core
+grpcio>=1.46.0,<=1.68.0:    core
+grpcio-reflection>=1.46.0,<=1.68.0:  core
+grpcio-health-checking>=1.46.0,<=1.68.0:  core
 pyyaml>=5.3.1:              core
 packaging>=20.0:            core
 docarray>=0.16.4:           core
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ opentelemetry-api>=1.12.0:  core
 opentelemetry-instrumentation-grpc>=0.35b0:  core 
 uvloop:                     perf,standard,devel
 prometheus_client>=0.12.0:  perf,standard,devel
-opentelemetry-sdk>=1.14.0,<1.20.0:  perf,standard,devel
+opentelemetry-sdk>=1.14.0:  perf,standard,devel
 opentelemetry-exporter-otlp>=1.12.0:  perf,standard,devel
 opentelemetry-exporter-prometheus>=0.33b0:  perf,standard,devel
 opentelemetry-instrumentation-aiohttp-client>=0.33b0:    perf,standard,devel