diff --git a/Changelog.rst b/Changelog.rst
index d573cff3..9fed6637 100644
--- a/Changelog.rst
+++ b/Changelog.rst
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@
 Changelog
 =========
 
-5.0.0 (dev)
------------
+5.0.0 (2016-10-19)
+------------------
 
 Version compatible with elasticsearch 5.0
 
diff --git a/docs/conf.py b/docs/conf.py
index 0a77fefd..31378e79 100644
--- a/docs/conf.py
+++ b/docs/conf.py
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ copyright = u'2013, Honza Král'
 # The short X.Y version.
 version = '5.0.0'
 # The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags.
-release = '5.0.0-dev'
+release = '5.0.0'
 
 # The language for content autogenerated by Sphinx. Refer to documentation
 # for a list of supported languages.
diff --git a/elasticsearch/__init__.py b/elasticsearch/__init__.py
index 2a5df93b..866601ad 100644
--- a/elasticsearch/__init__.py
+++ b/elasticsearch/__init__.py
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 from __future__ import absolute_import
 
-VERSION = (5, 0, 0, 'dev')
+VERSION = (5, 0, 0)
 __version__ = VERSION
 __versionstr__ = '.'.join(map(str, VERSION))
 
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index b51dcdb2..2c68f8b0 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -2,9 +2,8 @@
 from os.path import join, dirname
 from setuptools import setup, find_packages
 import sys
-import os
 
-VERSION = (5, 0, 0, 'dev')
+VERSION = (5, 0, 0)
 __version__ = VERSION
 __versionstr__ = '.'.join(map(str, VERSION))