diff --git a/AUTHORS.md b/AUTHORS.md
index 37ece98..361f7cb 100644
--- a/AUTHORS.md
+++ b/AUTHORS.md
@@ -43,15 +43,16 @@
     * Spyridon Mastorakis <http://cs.ucla.edu/~mastorakis/>
     * Jiewen Tan          <https://www.linkedin.com/in/jiewentan>
 
-* University of Arizona
+* Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí (UASLP)
+
+    * Pedro David Arjona Villicaña <david.arjona@uaslp.mx>
+
+* Individual Contributor(s)
 
     * Junxiao Shi         <https://www.linkedin.com/in/shijunxiao>
-
-* University Pierre & Marie Curie, Sorbonne University
-
     * Davide Pesavento    <https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidepesavento>
 
 ## Queries about NLSR
 
-Any question related to NLSR should be directed to Ashlesh Gawande (agawande@memphis.edu),
-Muktadir R Chowdhury (mrchwdhr@memphis.edu), and Nicholas Gordon (nmgordon@memphis.edu).
+Any question related to NLSR should be directed to Ashlesh Gawande (agawande@memphis.edu), Saurab Dulal (sdulal@memphis.edu),
+Muktadir R Chowdhury (mrchwdhr@memphis.edu).
diff --git a/docs/release-notes-latest.rst b/docs/release-notes-latest.rst
index b251b59..c25095c 120000
--- a/docs/release-notes-latest.rst
+++ b/docs/release-notes-latest.rst
@@ -1 +1 @@
-release-notes/release-notes-0.4.3.rst
\ No newline at end of file
+release-notes/release-notes-0.5.0.rst
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/docs/release-notes/release-notes-0.5.0.rst b/docs/release-notes/release-notes-0.5.0.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..737d4cc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/release-notes/release-notes-0.5.0.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+NLSR version 0.5.0
+++++++++++++++++++
+
+**New Features**
+
+- Set CanBePrefix to false on Hello Interest (:issue:`4581`)
+- Optionally write prefixes to a copy of config file via nlsrc advertise (:issue:`4303`)
+- Use SegmentPublisher utility from PSync to publish LSA data (:issue:`4760`)
+- Add PSync as a dependency and switch it as default in conf file. (:issue:`4082`)
+
+**Changes**
+
+- Decouple classes from Nlsr object for easier unit testing (:issue:`1952`)
+- Set sequence number file in SequencingManager constructor. (:issue:`4288`)
+- Read conf file in test prefix update processor instead of static string (:issue:`3960`)
+- Canonize FaceUri in conf file processor (:issue:`4817`)
+- Remove redundant function "calculateHypDryRoutingTable" (:issue:`4811`)
+- In dry run mode, print HR and LS routing table in nlsrc separately (:issue:`4452`)
+- Fix ASan memory leaks in unit tests (:issue:`4682`)
+- Systemd service files dependency corrections for Ubuntu 18.04 (:issue:`4594`)
+
+**Bug Fixes**
+
+- Fix processing of interest w/ segments for segmented LSA data (:issue:`4784`)
+- Fib: don't refresh neighbor router's FIB entry (:issue:`4799`)
+- Disable Interest filter loopback where ever not needed (:issue:`4768`)
+- Avoid crash when ndn-cxx is compiled with tests by setting canBePrefix (:issue:`4691`)
+- Make sure NLSR is not using any deprecated API (:issue:`4679`)
+- Fix crash in equals operator of adjacency-list (:issue:`4705`)
+- Fix error handling and normalize exit codes
+
+**Miscellaneous**
+
+- Improving documentation for NLSR
+- A beginners' guide to installing and testing on Fedora
diff --git a/docs/releases.rst b/docs/releases.rst
index d45e027..2b3f4f9 100644
--- a/docs/releases.rst
+++ b/docs/releases.rst
@@ -4,7 +4,8 @@
 .. toctree::
    :hidden:
    :maxdepth: 1
-
+ 
+   release-notes/release-notes-0.5.0
    release-notes/release-notes-0.4.3
    release-notes/release-notes-0.4.2
    release-notes/release-notes-0.4.1
diff --git a/wscript b/wscript
index 52c9882..173563b 100644
--- a/wscript
+++ b/wscript
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 NLSR, e.g., in COPYING.md file.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 """
 
-VERSION = "0.4.3"
+VERSION = "0.5.0"
 APPNAME = "nlsr"
 BUGREPORT = "https://redmine.named-data.net/projects/nlsr"
 URL = "https://named-data.net/doc/NLSR/"