diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 35eeae46c..65aeffb77 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](http://keepachangelog.com/)
 and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/),
 and [PEP 440](https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0440/).
 
-## [2.5.0] - not released yet
+## [2.5.0] - 2022-01-22
 ### Added
 - add [`fpdf.drawing`](https://pyfpdf.github.io/fpdf2/Drawing.html) API for composing paths from an arbitrary sequence of lines and curves.
 - add [`fpdf.svg.convert_svg_to_drawing`](https://pyfpdf.github.io/fpdf2/SVG.html) function to support converting basic scalable vector graphics (SVG) images to PDF paths.
diff --git a/fpdf/fpdf.py b/fpdf/fpdf.py
index 4febbe612..b85489d98 100644
--- a/fpdf/fpdf.py
+++ b/fpdf/fpdf.py
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@
 HERE = Path(__file__).resolve().parent
 
 # Global variables
-FPDF_VERSION = "2.4.6"
+FPDF_VERSION = "2.5.0"
 FPDF_FONT_DIR = HERE / "font"
 
 PAGE_FORMATS = {