diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index a340fc39231e60b119c76b6aa1ab31be0b32eef1..5a7704c4565130cbb175cdaa944957837f2d61b8 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ mvn clean package -DskipTests
 # replace the value with an actual directory name, example "out"
 mkdir <root_dir>
 
-java -p core/target/core-4.3.0-SNAPSHOT.jar -m io.questdb/io.questdb.ServerMain -d <root_dir>
+java -p core/target/core-5.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar -m io.questdb/io.questdb.ServerMain -d <root_dir>
 ```
 
 QuestDB will start an HTTP server with the web console available at
diff --git a/benchmarks/pom.xml b/benchmarks/pom.xml
index 514a5bb8fdbcc89e9c81f22541f30799449d44c3..a223f0031f8d9d221753e87fef03ec5a2e607828 100644
--- a/benchmarks/pom.xml
+++ b/benchmarks/pom.xml
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.questdb</groupId>
             <artifactId>core</artifactId>
-            <version>5.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+            <version>5.0.0</version>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
diff --git a/core/pom.xml b/core/pom.xml
index 2bc3270cda3164b9f3501ac3def6b4cb8f7b1098..6c8e7f1ff4c3178a03bb0337e38ac4e82e6d7d38 100644
--- a/core/pom.xml
+++ b/core/pom.xml
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
         <javac.target>11</javac.target>
     </properties>
 
-    <version>5.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>5.0.0</version>
     <groupId>org.questdb</groupId>
     <artifactId>core</artifactId>
     <packaging>jar</packaging>
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index a398e7e28328d2138c9ffddc1bc4985838b220d1..d846c8176493e066974ab9271461d6a262a8773f 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
          xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
     <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
 
-    <version>5.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>5.0.0</version>
     <groupId>org.questdb</groupId>
     <artifactId>questdb</artifactId>
     <packaging>pom</packaging>