diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index f4e0efe6..0a55c013 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 CHANGELOG
 =========
 
-5.0.0
+5.0.0 (2025-11-20)
 ------------------
 
 * **BREAKING:** All model and record classes have been converted to Java records.
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 44ac35da..3aba8a69 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ To do this, add the dependency to your pom.xml:
     <dependency>
         <groupId>com.maxmind.geoip2</groupId>
         <artifactId>geoip2</artifactId>
-        <version>4.4.0</version>
+        <version>5.0.0</version>
     </dependency>
 ```
 
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ repositories {
     mavenCentral()
 }
 dependencies {
-    compile 'com.maxmind.geoip2:geoip2:4.4.0'
+    compile 'com.maxmind.geoip2:geoip2:5.0.0'
 }
 ```
 
diff --git a/dev-bin/release.sh b/dev-bin/release.sh
index 45668bd9..525435e2 100755
--- a/dev-bin/release.sh
+++ b/dev-bin/release.sh
@@ -2,6 +2,14 @@
 
 set -eu -o pipefail
 
+# Check that we're not on the main branch
+current_branch=$(git branch --show-current)
+if [ "$current_branch" = "main" ]; then
+    echo "Error: Releases should not be done directly on the main branch."
+    echo "Please create a release branch and run this script from there."
+    exit 1
+fi
+
 changelog=$(cat CHANGELOG.md)
 
 regex='
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index f6a1cf1a..7d19753a 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
     <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
     <groupId>com.maxmind.geoip2</groupId>
     <artifactId>geoip2</artifactId>
-    <version>5.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>5.0.0</version>
     <packaging>jar</packaging>
     <name>MaxMind GeoIP2 API</name>
     <description>GeoIP2 webservice client and database reader</description>