diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 6edc5e0..832ad88 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-smartmeter-datacollector (0.4.1-1) unstable; urgency=low
+smartmeter-datacollector (0.5.0-1) unstable; urgency=low
 
   * support building Debian source and binary packages for distribution on Debian Buster amd64 and raspios
 
- -- Supercomputing Systems AG <info@scs.ch>  Sun, 29 Aug 2021 21:04:55 +0000
+ -- Supercomputing Systems AG <info@scs.ch>  Fri, 03 Sep 2021 10:46:59 +0200
diff --git a/smartmeter_datacollector/__version__.py b/smartmeter_datacollector/__version__.py
index ad24498..fed5516 100644
--- a/smartmeter_datacollector/__version__.py
+++ b/smartmeter_datacollector/__version__.py
@@ -5,4 +5,4 @@
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
 # See LICENSES/README.md for more information.
 #
-__version__ = "0.4.1"
+__version__ = "0.5.0"