diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 2e57e796a..262c82d64 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ This project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/).
 ## [Unreleased][unreleased]
 - Nothing yet, placeholder
 
+## [5.0.0] - 2015-06-18
+
 ### Fixed
 - Prevented `to_key` from requiring an extra DB query. (See https://github.com/neo4jrb/neo4j/pull/827)
 
diff --git a/lib/neo4j/version.rb b/lib/neo4j/version.rb
index 5e47602e9..d71c7278e 100644
--- a/lib/neo4j/version.rb
+++ b/lib/neo4j/version.rb
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 module Neo4j
-  VERSION = '5.0.0.rc.3'
+  VERSION = '5.0.0'
 end
diff --git a/neo4j.gemspec b/neo4j.gemspec
index a56eae6f6..5b3f20552 100644
--- a/neo4j.gemspec
+++ b/neo4j.gemspec
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ A Neo4j OGM (Object-Graph-Mapper) for use in Ruby on Rails and Rack frameworks h
   s.add_dependency('activemodel', '~> 4')
   s.add_dependency('activesupport', '~> 4')
   s.add_dependency('active_attr', '~> 0.8')
-  s.add_dependency('neo4j-core', '>= 5.0.0.rc.1')
+  s.add_dependency('neo4j-core', '~> 5.0.0')
   s.add_dependency('neo4j-community', '~> 2.0') if RUBY_PLATFORM =~ /java/
   s.add_development_dependency('railties', '~> 4')
   s.add_development_dependency('pry')