diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 58f48a9f..1c494773 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -3,6 +3,19 @@
 For **1.x** release notes, please see [v1.x/CHANGELOG.md](https://github.com/awslabs/amazon-kinesis-client/blob/v1.x/CHANGELOG.md)
 
 ---
+### Release 2.5.0 (May 19, 2023)
+* **[#1109](https://github.com/awslabs/amazon-kinesis-client/pull/1109) Add support for stream ARNs**
+* **[#1065](https://github.com/awslabs/amazon-kinesis-client/pull/1065) Allow tags to be added when lease table is created**
+* [#1094](https://github.com/awslabs/amazon-kinesis-client/pull/1094) Code cleanup to introduce better testing
+* [#1088](https://github.com/awslabs/amazon-kinesis-client/pull/1088) Minimize race in PSSM to optimize shard sync calls 
+* [#1086](https://github.com/awslabs/amazon-kinesis-client/pull/1086) Add additional SingleStreamTracker constructor with stream position parameter
+* [#1084](https://github.com/awslabs/amazon-kinesis-client/pull/1084) More consistent testing behavior with restartAfterRequestTimerExpires
+* [#1066](https://github.com/awslabs/amazon-kinesis-client/pull/1066) More consistent testing behavior with HashRangesAreAlwaysComplete
+* [#1072](https://github.com/awslabs/amazon-kinesis-client/pull/1072) Upgrade nexus-staging-maven-plugin from 1.6.8 to 1.6.13
+* [#1073](https://github.com/awslabs/amazon-kinesis-client/pull/1073) Upgrade slf4j-api from 2.0.6 to 2.0.7
+* [#1090](https://github.com/awslabs/amazon-kinesis-client/pull/1090) Upgrade awssdk.version from 2.20.8 to 2.20.43
+* [#1071](https://github.com/awslabs/amazon-kinesis-client/pull/1071) Upgrade maven-compiler-plugin from 3.8.1 to 3.11.0
+
 ### Release 2.4.8 (March 21, 2023)
 * [#1080](https://github.com/awslabs/amazon-kinesis-client/pull/1080) Added metric in `ShutdownTask` for scenario when parent leases are missing.
 * [#1077](https://github.com/awslabs/amazon-kinesis-client/pull/1077) Reverted changes to pom property
diff --git a/amazon-kinesis-client-multilang/pom.xml b/amazon-kinesis-client-multilang/pom.xml
index db364375..0dfe7507 100644
--- a/amazon-kinesis-client-multilang/pom.xml
+++ b/amazon-kinesis-client-multilang/pom.xml
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
   <parent>
     <artifactId>amazon-kinesis-client-pom</artifactId>
     <groupId>software.amazon.kinesis</groupId>
-    <version>2.5.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>2.5.0</version>
   </parent>
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
 
diff --git a/amazon-kinesis-client/pom.xml b/amazon-kinesis-client/pom.xml
index e08ed98d..29289509 100644
--- a/amazon-kinesis-client/pom.xml
+++ b/amazon-kinesis-client/pom.xml
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
   <parent>
     <groupId>software.amazon.kinesis</groupId>
     <artifactId>amazon-kinesis-client-pom</artifactId>
-    <version>2.5.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>2.5.0</version>
   </parent>
 
   <artifactId>amazon-kinesis-client</artifactId>
diff --git a/amazon-kinesis-client/src/main/java/software/amazon/kinesis/retrieval/RetrievalConfig.java b/amazon-kinesis-client/src/main/java/software/amazon/kinesis/retrieval/RetrievalConfig.java
index 082dd565..9e9332b3 100644
--- a/amazon-kinesis-client/src/main/java/software/amazon/kinesis/retrieval/RetrievalConfig.java
+++ b/amazon-kinesis-client/src/main/java/software/amazon/kinesis/retrieval/RetrievalConfig.java
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ public class RetrievalConfig {
      */
     public static final String KINESIS_CLIENT_LIB_USER_AGENT = "amazon-kinesis-client-library-java";
 
-    public static final String KINESIS_CLIENT_LIB_USER_AGENT_VERSION = "2.5.0-SNAPSHOT";
+    public static final String KINESIS_CLIENT_LIB_USER_AGENT_VERSION = 2.5.0;
 
     /**
      * Client used to make calls to Kinesis for records retrieval
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 0f3e0ddf..b2c69a1f 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
   <artifactId>amazon-kinesis-client-pom</artifactId>
   <packaging>pom</packaging>
   <name>Amazon Kinesis Client Library</name>
-  <version>2.5.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+  <version>2.5.0</version>
   <description>The Amazon Kinesis Client Library for Java enables Java developers to easily consume and process data
     from Amazon Kinesis.
   </description>