diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 15b337b7..4d5a0e6a 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 2013-07-10  Jay Berkenbilt  <ejb@ql.org>
 
+	* 5.0.0: release
+
 	* 4.2.0 turned out to be binary incompatible on some platforms
 	even though there were no changes to the public API.  Therefore
 	the 4.2.0 release has been withdrawn, and is being replaced with a
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 14f05c4c..22fffc24 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ dnl Process this file with autoconf to produce a configure script.
 dnl This config.in requires autoconf 2.5 or greater.
 
 AC_PREREQ([2.68])
-AC_INIT([qpdf],[4.2.0])
+AC_INIT([qpdf],[5.0.0])
 
 AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([m4])
 AC_CONFIG_FILES([autoconf.mk])
diff --git a/libqpdf/QPDF.cc b/libqpdf/QPDF.cc
index 1126b5fa..73207ec9 100644
--- a/libqpdf/QPDF.cc
+++ b/libqpdf/QPDF.cc
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 #include <qpdf/QPDF_Null.hh>
 #include <qpdf/QPDF_Dictionary.hh>
 
-std::string QPDF::qpdf_version = "4.2.0";
+std::string QPDF::qpdf_version = "5.0.0";
 
 static char const* EMPTY_PDF =
     "%PDF-1.3\n"
diff --git a/libqpdf/build.mk b/libqpdf/build.mk
index 095ac198..9f3de30f 100644
--- a/libqpdf/build.mk
+++ b/libqpdf/build.mk
@@ -94,4 +94,4 @@ $(COBJS_libqpdf): libqpdf/$(OUTPUT_DIR)/%.$(LOBJ): libqpdf/%.c
 # * Otherwise, increment REVISION
 
 $(TARGETS_libqpdf): $(OBJS_libqpdf)
-	$(call makelib,$(OBJS_libqpdf),$@,$(LDFLAGS),$(LIBS),12,0,2)
+	$(call makelib,$(OBJS_libqpdf),$@,$(LDFLAGS),$(LIBS),13,0,0)