diff --git a/mne_bids/__init__.py b/mne_bids/__init__.py
index 5f8656b0b..9fc17a1af 100644
--- a/mne_bids/__init__.py
+++ b/mne_bids/__init__.py
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 """MNE software for easily interacting with BIDS compatible datasets."""
 
-__version__ = '0.5.dev0'
+__version__ = '0.5'
 from mne_bids import commands
 from mne_bids.report import make_report
 from mne_bids.path import (BIDSPath, get_datatypes, get_entity_vals,