From cb1080e50c74a30c1def7c7fbd583d94f1903cce Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Syed Jafri <syedjfr@amazon.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2026 13:47:17 -0700
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] Add v3.11.0 changelog and version bump

---
 CHANGELOG.md   | 13 +++++++++++++
 pyproject.toml |  2 +-
 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index cc7d8a5b..92a20ee0 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,18 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## v3.11.0 (2026-09-02)
+
+### Features
+- Upgrade the bundled inference operator to v3.5 and add model-weight cache node affinity support to the `InferenceEndpointConfig` and `JumpStartModel` CRDs (#455)
+
+### Bug Fixes and Other Changes
+- Use Phi-2 for JumpStart integration tests so inference coverage runs reliably on `ml.g5.8xlarge` instances (#452)
+
+### Helm Chart Changes
+- Run NVIDIA and non-NVIDIA health-monitoring agents with `system-node-critical` priority by default, with support for configuring the priority class (#451)
+- Make deep-health-check and MPI namespace creation optional and support deploying deep health checks into a configurable, pre-existing namespace (#422)
+- Update the inference-operator subchart from 2.4.0 to 2.5.0 and its operator image from v3.4 to v3.5 (#455)
+
 ## v3.10.0 (2026-08-21)
 
 ### Features
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 11eee592..421acf35 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
 [project]
 dynamic = ["dependencies"]
 name = "sagemaker-hyperpod"
-version = "3.10.0"
+version = "3.11.0"
 description = "Amazon SageMaker HyperPod SDK and CLI"
 readme = "README.md"
 requires-python = ">=3.8"

From 7c400ba1dc0dd721bfebe35149a2e95e7ac4f8da Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Syed Jafri <syedjfr@amazon.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2026 14:03:17 -0700
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] Release 3.11 - update setup.py

---
 setup.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 4f452095..7a4ec490 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@
 setup(
     data_files=sagemaker_hyperpod_recipes,
     name="sagemaker-hyperpod",
-    version="3.9.0",
+    version="3.11.0",
     description="Amazon SageMaker HyperPod SDK and CLI",
     long_description=open("README.md").read(),
     long_description_content_type="text/markdown",

From 92e58448ca5dbc239ce3138c799ef593b785d562 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Syed Mujtaba <42322958+mujtaba1747@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2026 15:25:32 -0700
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] Clean up README.md formatting

Remove empty line at the beginning of README.md
---
 README.md | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 8d596ed7..4af29987 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-
 # SageMaker HyperPod command-line interface
 
 The Amazon SageMaker HyperPod command-line interface (HyperPod CLI) is a tool that helps manage clusters, training jobs, and inference endpoints on the SageMaker HyperPod clusters orchestrated by Amazon EKS.