diff --git a/docs/release-notes-latest.rst b/docs/release-notes-latest.rst
index e77ea53..6c84996 120000
--- a/docs/release-notes-latest.rst
+++ b/docs/release-notes-latest.rst
@@ -1 +1 @@
-release-notes/release-notes-0.5.1.rst
\ No newline at end of file
+release-notes/release-notes-0.5.2.rst
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/docs/release-notes/release-notes-0.5.2.rst b/docs/release-notes/release-notes-0.5.2.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..aa4c526
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/release-notes/release-notes-0.5.2.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+NLSR version 0.5.2
+++++++++++++++++++
+
+**Breaking Changes**
+
+The following breaking changes makes this release incompatible with the previous version.
+- Use latest PSync version 0.2.0, sync data compression enabled in full sync by default (:issue:`5061`, :issue:`4917`)
+- Use the double encoding/decoding functions for hyperbolic coordinates (:issue:`4615`)
+
+**New Features**
+
+- Handle zero cost links in Link State Routing (:issue:`4978`)
+
+**Improvements and Bug Fixes**:
+
+- Remove support for old combined seq no file (:issue:`4143`)
+- Sync common test infrastructure with ndn-cxx
+- Refactor Certificate Storage class (:issue:`5075`)
+- Avoid crashing NLSR if identity cannot be created
+- Change init order to register sync routes after hello data has been verified (:issue:`5009`)
+- Fix empty file creation if conf file is same as dynamic (:issue:`5071`)
+- On face event notification, only proceed if face id was zero or updated (:issue:`4394`)
diff --git a/docs/releases.rst b/docs/releases.rst
index c353c86..841da45 100644
--- a/docs/releases.rst
+++ b/docs/releases.rst
@@ -4,7 +4,8 @@
 .. toctree::
    :hidden:
    :maxdepth: 1
-	
+
+   release-notes/release-notes-0.5.2
    release-notes/release-notes-0.5.1
    release-notes/release-notes-0.5.0
    release-notes/release-notes-0.4.3
@@ -20,6 +21,12 @@
    release-notes/release-notes-0.1.0
 
 
+* **NLSR version 0.5.2**
+  (:doc:`Release Notes <release-notes/release-notes-0.5.2>`, `Documentation <https://named-data.net/doc/NLSR/0.5.2/>`__)
+
+  `src (git) <https://github.com/named-data/NLSR/releases/tag/NLSR-0.5.2>`__,
+  `src (tarball) <https://named-data.net/downloads/nlsr-0.5.2.tar.bz2>`__ (`checksum <https://named-data.net/downloads/nlsr-0.5.2.tar.bz2.sha256>`__)
+
 * **NLSR version 0.5.1**
   (:doc:`Release Notes <release-notes/release-notes-0.5.1>`, `Documentation <https://named-data.net/doc/NLSR/0.5.1/>`__)
 
diff --git a/wscript b/wscript
index b672791..4e8b19e 100644
--- a/wscript
+++ b/wscript
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
 from waflib import Context, Logs, Utils
 import os, subprocess
 
-VERSION = "0.5.1"
+VERSION = "0.5.2"
 APPNAME = "nlsr"
 BUGREPORT = "https://redmine.named-data.net/projects/nlsr"
 URL = "https://named-data.net/doc/NLSR/"