diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index fd3c87314c..3961f72032 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-## UNRELEASED
+## 0.25.0 (March 18, 2021)
 
 FEATURES:
 * Metrics: add metrics configuration to inject-connect and metrics-merging capability to consul-sidecar. When metrics and metrics merging are enabled, the consul-sidecar will expose an endpoint that merges the app and proxy metrics.
diff --git a/version/version.go b/version/version.go
index 1dcef102eb..10fadfd8aa 100644
--- a/version/version.go
+++ b/version/version.go
@@ -14,12 +14,12 @@ var (
 	//
 	// Version must conform to the format expected by
 	// github.com/hashicorp/go-version for tests to work.
-	Version = "0.24.0"
+	Version = "0.25.0"
 
 	// A pre-release marker for the version. If this is "" (empty string)
 	// then it means that it is a final release. Otherwise, this is a pre-release
 	// such as "dev" (in development), "beta", "rc1", etc.
-	VersionPrerelease = "dev"
+	VersionPrerelease = ""
 )
 
 // GetHumanVersion composes the parts of the version in a way that's suitable