diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 6f1a4241..c1f9ef76 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2.5.0 | 2023-05-19 09:04:08 -0700
+
+  * Update CHANGES, VERSION, and NEWS for v2.5.0 release (Tim Wojtulewicz)
+
 2.5.0-dev.59 | 2023-02-01 15:33:14 -0700
 
   * Bump pybind11 to version 2.10.3 (Tim Wojtulewicz, Corelight)
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 34f315e9..6ce3514e 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,46 @@
+Broker 2.5.0
+============
+
+- Add interface include dirs to broker lib targets
+
+- Minimize messaging in sim_clock::advance_time
+
+- Update CAF submodule for SPCP buffer fix
+
+- Fix handling of peer/client errors
+
+- Implement graceful disconnect handshake
+
+- Add ``synchronous``, ``journal_mode``, ``failure_mode``, and
+  ``integrity_check`` options to the SQLite store backend.
+
+- Fix to use IPv6 mode for accept sockets by default
+
+- Add support for using Zeek-style port/protocol notation as arguments
+
+- Add support for building with GCC 13.
+
+Broker 2.4.0
+============
+
+- Fix CMake package file when bundling CAF (Dominik Charousset, Corelight)
+
+- Fix a performance bottleneck in Broker-internal caching.
+
+- Improve performance with the ``stealing`` scheduler policy.
+
+- Fix messaging between clones and proxies that was resulting in an error
+  message being reported.
+
+- Fix a bug that prevented Broker nodes to recover from OpenSSL errors.
+
+- Fix handling of buffer sizes that caused Broker to stall despite having
+  sufficient capacity.
+
+- Add missing error signaling
+
+- Fix communication between Broker data stores.
+
 Broker 2.3.0
 ============
 
diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index 2df3dbd5..437459cd 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-2.5.0-dev.59
+2.5.0
diff --git a/include/broker/version.hh b/include/broker/version.hh
index e61a9615..84ef0ee6 100644
--- a/include/broker/version.hh
+++ b/include/broker/version.hh
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ using type = unsigned;
 constexpr type major = 2;
 constexpr type minor = 5;
 constexpr type patch = 0;
-constexpr auto suffix = "-dev";
+constexpr auto suffix = "";
 
 constexpr type protocol = 2;