diff --git a/UPDATING b/UPDATING
index 2f187e2b2913..b5355c64f2d7 100644
--- a/UPDATING
+++ b/UPDATING
@@ -12,6 +12,11 @@ Items affecting the ports and packages system can be found in
 /usr/ports/UPDATING.  Please read that file before updating system packages
 and/or ports.
 
+20220327:
+	Bump __FreeBSD_verion to 1301501 after merging LinuxKPI and
+	net80211 changes in order to help out-of-tree consumers to deal
+	accordingly.
+
 20220123:
 	For 64-bit architectures the base system is now built with Position
 	Independent Executable (PIE) support enabled by default.  It may be
diff --git a/sys/sys/param.h b/sys/sys/param.h
index 9418333faaa3..4319df572647 100644
--- a/sys/sys/param.h
+++ b/sys/sys/param.h
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@
  *		in the range 5 to 9.
  */
 #undef __FreeBSD_version
-#define __FreeBSD_version 1301500	/* Master, propagated to newvers */
+#define __FreeBSD_version 1301501	/* Master, propagated to newvers */
 
 /*
  * __FreeBSD_kernel__ indicates that this system uses the kernel of FreeBSD,