From 5afd2c467e1cc640aa67e9ef94d94e85e0f79280 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paurush Garg <62579325+PaurushGarg@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2023 23:21:33 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] merge docs/releases/v0.25.0.md into release branch (#1738)

* bump version to v0.25.0

* Resoving Comments
---
 VERSION                  |  2 +-
 docs/releases/v0.25.0.md | 14 ++++++++++++++
 versions.yaml            |  2 +-
 3 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 docs/releases/v0.25.0.md

diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index b61be290f7..5bd9725a34 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-v0.24.1
+v0.25.0
diff --git a/docs/releases/v0.25.0.md b/docs/releases/v0.25.0.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..3aeb5c0263
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/releases/v0.25.0.md
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+# Changelog
+
+## [v0.25.0](https://github.com/aws-observability/aws-otel-collector/tree/v0.25.0) (2023-01-05)
+
+[Full Changelog](https://github.com/aws-observability/aws-otel-collector/compare/v0.24.1...v0.25.0)
+
+**Merged pull requests:**
+
+- Update dependencies [\#1710](https://github.com/aws-observability/aws-otel-collector/pull/1710) ([bryan-aguilar](https://github.com/bryan-aguilar))
+- Updates to ECS EC2 sidecar deployment CFN template [\#1592](https://github.com/aws-observability/aws-otel-collector/pull/1592) ([PaurushGarg](https://github.com/PaurushGarg))
+- Upgrade OTel dependencies to v0.68.0 collector/collector-contrib [\#1736](https://github.com/aws-observability/aws-otel-collector/pull/1736)
+
+
+\* *This Changelog was automatically generated by [github_changelog_generator](https://github.com/github-changelog-generator/github-changelog-generator)*
diff --git a/versions.yaml b/versions.yaml
index c41b2b5777..ddeb3c7132 100644
--- a/versions.yaml
+++ b/versions.yaml
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ module-sets:
   #Github Repo for Go Multimod: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-go-build-tools/tree/main/multimod
   #Goals: Centralize all the module set into one files and use this version yaml to manage all the module set during the release.
   adot-base:
-    version: v0.24.1
+    version: v0.25.0
     modules:
       - github.com/aws-observability/aws-otel-collector
       - github.com/aws-observability/aws-otel-collector/pkg/lambdacomponents