diff --git a/docs/changelog.rst b/docs/changelog.rst
index 80d14a8d..9698c992 100644
--- a/docs/changelog.rst
+++ b/docs/changelog.rst
@@ -3,7 +3,11 @@
 Changelog
 #########
 
-1.5 (not yet released)
+1.6 (not yet released)
+----------------------
+* TBD
+
+1.5 (April 21, 2016)
 ----------------------
 * For polymorphic types, use RTTI to try to return the closest type registered with pybind11
 * Pickling support for serializing and unserializing C++ instances to a byte stream in Python
diff --git a/pybind11/_version.py b/pybind11/_version.py
index 93cf8a70..fc9a9cc0 100644
--- a/pybind11/_version.py
+++ b/pybind11/_version.py
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-version_info = (1, 5, 'dev0')
+version_info = (1, 5)
 __version__ = '.'.join(map(str, version_info))