diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 539ae36d2..1f7ae74df 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Leiningen News -- history of user-visible changes
 
-## 2.5.0 / ???
+## 2.5.0 / 2014-09-14
 
 * Allow certain profiles to be `^:leaky` and affect downstream. (Hugo Duncan)
 * Allow profiles to be loaded out of plugins. (Phil Hagelberg, Hugo Duncan)
diff --git a/leiningen-core/src/leiningen/core/project.clj b/leiningen-core/src/leiningen/core/project.clj
index a966852cc..83f51d14d 100644
--- a/leiningen-core/src/leiningen/core/project.clj
+++ b/leiningen-core/src/leiningen/core/project.clj
@@ -478,6 +478,7 @@
                             {:displace true})
                 :test-selectors {:default (with-meta '(constantly true)
                                             {:displace true})}
+                ;; bump deps in leiningen's own project.clj with these
                 :dependencies '[[org.clojure/tools.nrepl "0.2.6"
                                  :exclusions [org.clojure/clojure]]
                                 [clojure-complete "0.2.3"
diff --git a/project.clj b/project.clj
index 2da679929..ae98ac0e9 100644
--- a/project.clj
+++ b/project.clj
@@ -6,24 +6,25 @@
   :url "https://github.com/technomancy/leiningen"
   :license {:name "Eclipse Public License"
             :url "http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html"}
-  :dependencies
-  ^:replace [[leiningen-core "2.5.0-SNAPSHOT"]
-             [org.clojure/data.xml "0.0.3"]
-             [commons-io "2.4"]
-             [bultitude "0.2.6"]
-             [stencil "0.3.3" :exclusions [org.clojure/core.cache]]
-             [org.apache.maven.indexer/indexer-core "4.1.3"
-              :exclusions [org.apache.maven/maven-model
-                           org.sonatype.aether/aether-api
-                           org.sonatype.aether/aether-util
-                           org.sonatype.sisu/sisu-inject-plexus
-                           jakarta-regexp]]
-             [reply "0.3.5" :exclusions [ring/ring-core
-                                         org.thnetos/cd-client]]
-             ;; bump versions of various common transitive deps
-             [slingshot "0.10.3"]
-             [cheshire "5.0.2"]
-             [clj-http "0.9.2" :exclusions [crouton]]]
+  :dependencies [[leiningen-core "2.5.0-SNAPSHOT"]
+                 [org.clojure/data.xml "0.0.3"]
+                 [commons-io "2.4"]
+                 [bultitude "0.2.6"]
+                 [stencil "0.3.3" :exclusions [org.clojure/core.cache]]
+                 [org.apache.maven.indexer/indexer-core "4.1.3"
+                  :exclusions [org.apache.maven/maven-model
+                               org.sonatype.aether/aether-api
+                               org.sonatype.aether/aether-util
+                               org.sonatype.sisu/sisu-inject-plexus
+                               jakarta-regexp]]
+                 [reply "0.3.5" :exclusions [ring/ring-core
+                                             org.thnetos/cd-client]]
+                 [org.clojure/tools.nrepl "0.2.6"]
+                 [clojure-complete "0.2.3"]
+                 ;; bump versions of various common transitive deps
+                 [slingshot "0.10.3"]
+                 [cheshire "5.0.2"]
+                 [clj-http "0.9.2" :exclusions [crouton]]]
   ;; checkout-deps don't work with :eval-in :leiningen
   :profiles {:dev {:resource-paths ["leiningen-core/dev-resources"]
                    :test-paths ["leiningen-core/test"]}