diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index cfeee46b484..bd3ab430c9e 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -4,7 +4,22 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.1.0/),
 and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html).
 
-## [0.21.0] - 2026-MM-DD
+## [0.22.0] - YYYY-MM-DD
+
+### Added
+
+### Changed
+
+### Deprecated
+
+### Removed
+
+### Fixed
+
+### Security
+
+
+## [0.21.0] - 2026-10-27
 
 This release achieves 100% compliance with Python Array API specification (revision [2025.12](https://data-apis.org/array-api/2025.12/)).
 This release is compatible with NumPy 2.5.4.
diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index b0d46b97545..252698dc1fe 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.27 FATAL_ERROR)
 
 project(
     dpnp
-    VERSION 0.21
+    VERSION 0.22
     LANGUAGES CXX
     DESCRIPTION "NumPy-like API accelerated by SYCL."
 )
diff --git a/dpnp/tests/tensor/test_tensor_array_api_inspection.py b/dpnp/tests/tensor/test_tensor_array_api_inspection.py
index 8608878d932..a04bccaf5db 100644
--- a/dpnp/tests/tensor/test_tensor_array_api_inspection.py
+++ b/dpnp/tests/tensor/test_tensor_array_api_inspection.py
@@ -36,7 +36,6 @@
     default_device_index_type,
     default_device_int_type,
 )
-from dpnp.tests.third_party.cupy.testing import with_requires
 
 _dtypes_no_fp16_fp64 = {
     "bool": dpt.bool,
@@ -73,7 +72,6 @@ def test_array_api_inspection_default_device():
     assert dpt.__array_namespace_info__().default_device().sycl_device == dev
 
 
-@with_requires("dpctl>=0.23.0dev0")
 def test_array_api_inspection_devices():
     try:
         devices2 = dpctl.get_devices()
diff --git a/dpnp/tests/tensor/test_usm_ndarray_dlpack.py b/dpnp/tests/tensor/test_usm_ndarray_dlpack.py
index f9c3f811a55..7d374199562 100644
--- a/dpnp/tests/tensor/test_usm_ndarray_dlpack.py
+++ b/dpnp/tests/tensor/test_usm_ndarray_dlpack.py
@@ -36,7 +36,6 @@
 import dpnp.tensor as dpt
 import dpnp.tensor._dlpack as _dlp
 import dpnp.tensor._usmarray as dpt_arr
-from dpnp.tests.third_party.cupy.testing import with_requires
 
 from .helper import (
     get_queue_or_skip,
@@ -233,7 +232,6 @@ def test_from_dlpack_fortran_contig_array_roundtripping():
     assert dpt.all(dpt.equal(ar2d_c, ar2d_r))
 
 
-@with_requires("dpctl>=0.23.0dev0")
 def test_dlpack_from_subdevice():
     """
     This test checks that array allocated on a sub-device,
@@ -586,7 +584,6 @@ def test_from_dlpack_to_kdlcpu_strides(mod, typestr):
             assert V.strides == W.strides
 
 
-@with_requires("dpctl>=0.23.0dev0")
 def test_dlpack_from_subdevice_to_kdlcpu():
     """
     Check that array allocated on a sub-device can be
diff --git a/dpnp/tests/test_array_api_info.py b/dpnp/tests/test_array_api_info.py
index 65a272038f4..60f81c0eddd 100644
--- a/dpnp/tests/test_array_api_info.py
+++ b/dpnp/tests/test_array_api_info.py
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@
     is_win_platform,
     numpy_version,
 )
-from dpnp.tests.third_party.cupy.testing import with_requires
 
 info = dpnp.__array_namespace_info__()
 default_device = select_default_device()
@@ -130,7 +129,6 @@ def test_dtypes_invalid_device():
         info.dtypes(device="str")
 
 
-@with_requires("dpctl>=0.23.0dev0")
 def test_devices():
     devices = info.devices()
     assert isinstance(devices, tuple)