diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
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--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Package: bcdata
 Title: Search and Retrieve Data from the BC Data Catalogue
-Version: 0.4.1.9000
+Version: 0.5.0
 Authors@R: 
     c(person(given = "Andy",
              family = "Teucher",
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
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--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# bcdata (development version)
+# bcdata 0.5.0
 
 * Make functions more robust to non-functioning WMS/WFS GetCapabilities requests
  (#339, #341).