diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index f742e618..364d319c 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,3 +1,17 @@
+## 1.5
+
+### Changes
+
+* Introduce a new pidfd based set of D-Bus APIs (#173)
+* Dynamically change governor on integrated GPUs for improved performance (#179)
+* Various other fixes and improvements.
+
+### Contributors
+
+* Alex Smith @aejsmith
+* Christian Kellner @gicmo
+* Jason Ekstrand @jekstrand
+
 ## 1.4
 
 ### Changes
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index fa52171f..d24698fa 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -106,12 +106,12 @@ ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="**" emerge --ask ~games-util/gamemode-9999
 ```
 
 ### Build and Install GameMode
-Then clone, build and install a release version of GameMode at 1.4:
+Then clone, build and install a release version of GameMode at 1.5:
 
 ```bash
 git clone https://github.com/FeralInteractive/gamemode.git
 cd gamemode
-git checkout 1.4 # omit to build the master branch
+git checkout 1.5 # omit to build the master branch
 ./bootstrap.sh
 ```
 
diff --git a/data/gamemoded.8.in b/data/gamemoded.8.in
index a615b30d..7be585b8 100644
--- a/data/gamemoded.8.in
+++ b/data/gamemoded.8.in
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 .\" Manpage for gamemoded.
 .\" Contact linux-contact@feralinteractive.com to correct errors or typos.
-.TH gamemoded 8 "21 July 2019" "1.5-dev" "gamemoded man page"
+.TH gamemoded 8 "22 Jan 2020" "1.5" "gamemoded man page"
 .SH NAME
 gamemoded \- optimises system performance on demand
 .SH SYNOPSIS
diff --git a/example/archlinux/gamemode-git/PKGBUILD b/example/archlinux/gamemode-git/PKGBUILD
index 8473daf6..87d28c5d 100644
--- a/example/archlinux/gamemode-git/PKGBUILD
+++ b/example/archlinux/gamemode-git/PKGBUILD
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Maintainer: Ysblokje <ysblokje at gmail dot com>
 pkgname=('gamemode-git')
-pkgver='1.5-dev'
+pkgver='1.5'
 pkgrel=1
 pkgdesc="GameMode is a daemon/lib combo for Linux that allows games to request a set of optimisations be temporarily applied to the host OS."
 arch=('x86_64')
diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index 80b244a0..d0cea97e 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ project(
     'gamemode',
     'c',
     default_options : ['c_std=c11', 'warning_level=3'],
-    version: '1.5-dev',
+    version: '1.5',
     license: 'BSD',
 )
 
diff --git a/scripts/mkrelease.sh b/scripts/mkrelease.sh
index 1cc10a26..0fa8dc11 100755
--- a/scripts/mkrelease.sh
+++ b/scripts/mkrelease.sh
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ git submodule init
 git submodule update
 
 # Bump in tandem with meson.build, run script once new tag is up.
-VERSION="1.5-dev"
+VERSION="1.5"
 
 NAME="gamemode"
 ./scripts/git-archive-all.sh --format tar --prefix ${NAME}-${VERSION}/ --verbose -t HEAD ${NAME}-${VERSION}.tar