diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 308797f..f85aa62 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Name: mqtt
-Version: 0.0.4
-Date: 2023-07-25
+Version: 0.0.5
+Date: 2024-04-11
 Author: John Donoghue <john.donoghue@ieee.org>
 Maintainer: John Donoghue <john.donoghue@ieee.org>
 Title: Octave MQTT Toolkit
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 3f35ce0..5d66070 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+Summary of important user-visible changes for octave-mqtt 0.0.5:
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+  ** minor documentation updates
+
+  ** provide handling windows paths with spaces
+
 Summary of important user-visible changes for octave-mqtt 0.0.4:
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 
diff --git a/src/configure.ac b/src/configure.ac
index 18001ae..ad5cbba 100644
--- a/src/configure.ac
+++ b/src/configure.ac
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
 ### <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 
 AC_PREREQ([2.67])
-AC_INIT([Octave mqtt], [0.0.4])
+AC_INIT([Octave mqtt], [0.0.5])
 AC_CONFIG_HEADERS([config.h])
 AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIRS([m4])
 AH_TOP([#include "undef-ah-octave.h"])