diff --git a/HISTORY.md b/HISTORY.md
index 5227de77..92056049 100644
--- a/HISTORY.md
+++ b/HISTORY.md
@@ -1,6 +1,29 @@
 Release History
 ---------------
 
+## 0.5.0 (2023-03-09)
+
+### Improvements
+
+- ***Docs updates***
+  - add citation information about mesa-geo [#117](https://github.com/projectmesa/mesa-geo/pull/117)
+  - add citation info to readthedocs [#118](https://github.com/projectmesa/mesa-geo/pull/118)
+  - docs: update docstrings on how to use providers requiring registration [#141](https://github.com/projectmesa/mesa-geo/pull/141)
+
+- ***Front-end updates***
+  - add scale to Leaflet map [#123](https://github.com/projectmesa/mesa-geo/pull/123)
+  - allow basemap tiles configuration [#127](https://github.com/projectmesa/mesa-geo/pull/127)
+
+- ***CI updates***
+  - add testing for python 3.11 [#122](https://github.com/projectmesa/mesa-geo/pull/122)
+  - ci: replace flake8 with ruff [#132](https://github.com/projectmesa/mesa-geo/pull/132)
+  - ci: update os, python versions, and dependabot configurations [#142](https://github.com/projectmesa/mesa-geo/pull/142)
+  - ci: pin ruff version to v0.0.254 [#144](https://github.com/projectmesa/mesa-geo/pull/144)
+
+### Fixes
+
+- fix WMSWebTile.to_dict() method [#140](https://github.com/projectmesa/mesa-geo/pull/140)
+
 ## 0.4.0 (2022-10-18)
 
 ### Improvements
diff --git a/docs/conf.py b/docs/conf.py
index 81d51718..e34851dc 100644
--- a/docs/conf.py
+++ b/docs/conf.py
@@ -65,9 +65,9 @@
 # built documents.
 #
 # The short X.Y version.
-version = "0.3.0"
+version = "0.5.0"
 # The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags.
-release = "0.3.0"
+release = "0.5.0"
 
 # The language for content autogenerated by Sphinx. Refer to documentation
 # for a list of supported languages.
diff --git a/mesa_geo/__init__.py b/mesa_geo/__init__.py
index 9e5c9641..575b9169 100644
--- a/mesa_geo/__init__.py
+++ b/mesa_geo/__init__.py
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 ]
 
 __title__ = "Mesa-Geo"
-__version__ = "0.4.0"
+__version__ = "0.5.0"
 __license__ = "Apache 2.0"
 _this_year = datetime.datetime.now(tz=datetime.timezone.utc).date().year
 __copyright__ = f"Copyright {_this_year} Project Mesa-Geo Team"