diff --git a/CITATION.cff b/CITATION.cff
index a820ef2974..26297f521a 100644
--- a/CITATION.cff
+++ b/CITATION.cff
@@ -51,6 +51,6 @@ authors:
 - family-names: Theisen
   given-names: Merel
 title: Kedro
-version: 0.18.14
-date-released: 2023-10-18
+version: 0.19.0
+date-released: 2023-12-12
 url: https://github.com/kedro-org/kedro
diff --git a/RELEASE.md b/RELEASE.md
index 2c9955d251..0ee85f8412 100644
--- a/RELEASE.md
+++ b/RELEASE.md
@@ -1,4 +1,16 @@
-# Upcoming Release 0.19.0
+# Upcoming Release 0.19.1
+
+## Major features and improvements
+
+## Bug fixes and other changes
+
+## Breaking changes to the API
+
+## Documentation changes
+
+## Community contributions
+
+# Release 0.19.0
 
 ## Major features and improvements
 * Dropped Python 3.7 support.
diff --git a/docs/source/development/commands_reference.md b/docs/source/development/commands_reference.md
index 926f42f785..c1e7d5e8de 100644
--- a/docs/source/development/commands_reference.md
+++ b/docs/source/development/commands_reference.md
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ Returns output similar to the following, depending on the version of Kedro used
 | |/ / _ \/ _` | '__/ _ \
 |   <  __/ (_| | | | (_) |
 |_|\_\___|\__,_|_|  \___/
-v0.18.14
+v0.19.0
 
 Kedro is a Python framework for
 creating reproducible, maintainable
diff --git a/docs/source/robots.txt b/docs/source/robots.txt
index 4ba3d5f9e7..4c104db342 100644
--- a/docs/source/robots.txt
+++ b/docs/source/robots.txt
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ User-agent: *
 Disallow: /
 Allow: /en/stable/
 Allow: /en/latest/
+Allow: /en/0.19.0/
 Allow: /en/0.18.5/
 Allow: /en/0.18.6/
 Allow: /en/0.18.7/
diff --git a/kedro/__init__.py b/kedro/__init__.py
index ed588fe10b..a924bfc6a7 100644
--- a/kedro/__init__.py
+++ b/kedro/__init__.py
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 import sys
 import warnings
 
-__version__ = "0.18.14"
+__version__ = "0.19.0"
 
 
 class KedroDeprecationWarning(DeprecationWarning):
diff --git a/kedro/framework/startup.py b/kedro/framework/startup.py
index c063eb630c..3dcbed9e91 100644
--- a/kedro/framework/startup.py
+++ b/kedro/framework/startup.py
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ def _get_project_metadata(project_path: Union[str, Path]) -> ProjectMetadata:
     try:
         return ProjectMetadata(**metadata_dict)
     except TypeError as exc:
-        expected_keys = mandatory_keys + ["source_dir"]
+        expected_keys = mandatory_keys + ["source_dir", "tools"]
         raise RuntimeError(
             f"Found unexpected keys in '{_PYPROJECT}'. Make sure "
             f"it only contains the following keys: {expected_keys}."
diff --git a/tests/framework/test_startup.py b/tests/framework/test_startup.py
index 145ee824ec..b67e0e2d1a 100644
--- a/tests/framework/test_startup.py
+++ b/tests/framework/test_startup.py
@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ def test_toml_file_with_extra_keys(self, mocker):
         pattern = (
             "Found unexpected keys in 'pyproject.toml'. Make sure it "
             "only contains the following keys: ['package_name', "
-            "'project_name', 'kedro_init_version', 'source_dir']."
+            "'project_name', 'kedro_init_version', 'source_dir', 'tools']."
         )
 
         with pytest.raises(RuntimeError, match=re.escape(pattern)):