diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index a331550d..9e7ec162 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,21 @@
+2024-11-10 - V5.5.0
+* Set hOCR capabilities ocrp_dir and ocrp_lang unconditionally.
+* Calculate row bounding box in single-word mode per (issue #4304).
+* Reduce clock syscalls (#4303).
+* Several small performance and other code fixes.
+* Modernized code.
+* Print time for tessedit_timing_debug in milliseconds.
+* Print time for ErrorCounter::ComputeErrorRate in milliseconds.
+* cmake: Correctly set the soversion based on SemVer properties.
+* Do not export PDBs for static libraries (issue #4279).
+* Several other small fixes and improvements for builds and CI.
+* Modernize code for renderers and remove filename conversion for Windows (#4330).
+* Add build rule for Windows installer.
+* Support symbolic values for --oem and --psm options.
+* Remove Tensorflow support.
+* Add RISC-V V support (#4346).
+* Remove broken GitHub action msys2-4.1.1.
+
 2024-06-11 - V5.4.1
 * Avoid FP overflow in NormEvidenceOf (fixes issue #4257) (#4259)
 * Small build fixes and code improvements (#4262, #4263, #4266, #4267)
diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index ade65226..d50359de 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-5.4.1
+5.5.0
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 0dc0db00..cb853e66 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([foreign subdir-objects nostdinc])
 # Define date of package, etc. Could be useful in auto-generated
 # documentation.
 PACKAGE_YEAR=2024
-PACKAGE_DATE="06/11"
+PACKAGE_DATE="11/10"
 
 abs_top_srcdir=`AS_DIRNAME([$0])`