diff --git a/Lib/ctypes/__init__.py b/Lib/ctypes/__init__.py
index 6a6053e636a..f37c3b49a2d 100644
--- a/Lib/ctypes/__init__.py
+++ b/Lib/ctypes/__init__.py
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 
 import os as _os, sys as _sys
 
-__version__ = "1.0.1"
+__version__ = "1.1.0"
 
 from _ctypes import Union, Structure, Array
 from _ctypes import _Pointer
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index b3f03e70099..564e3b11920 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -109,6 +109,8 @@ Core and builtins
 Library
 -------
 
+- The version number of the ctypes package changed to "1.1.0".
+
 - Bug #1627575: logging: Added _open() method to FileHandler which can
   be used to reopen files. The FileHandler instance now saves the
   encoding (which can be None) in an attribute called "encoding".