diff --git a/CHANGES.rst b/CHANGES.rst
index a336354c..af52d39f 100644
--- a/CHANGES.rst
+++ b/CHANGES.rst
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Version 0.5.0
 -------------
 
-Unreleased
+Released 2023-05-11
 
 -   Drop support for Python < 3.7.
 -   Switch to ``pyproject.toml`` and Flit for packaging.
diff --git a/src/flask_session/__init__.py b/src/flask_session/__init__.py
index 5a6f7d3e..e4d28547 100644
--- a/src/flask_session/__init__.py
+++ b/src/flask_session/__init__.py
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
-__version__ = '0.5.0'
-
 import os
 
 from .sessions import NullSessionInterface, RedisSessionInterface, \
     MemcachedSessionInterface, FileSystemSessionInterface, \
     MongoDBSessionInterface, SqlAlchemySessionInterface
 
+__version__ = '0.5.0'
+
 
 class Session(object):
     """This class is used to add Server-side Session to one or more Flask