diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 5eafcaa7..b5c19fff 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <groupId>au.csiro.aehrc.variant-spark</groupId>
   <artifactId>variant-spark_2.12</artifactId>
-  <version>0.5.0-a0-dev6-SNAPSHOT</version>
+  <version>0.5.0</version>
   <packaging>jar</packaging>
 
   <name>variant-spark</name>