diff --git a/CHANGELOG.adoc b/CHANGELOG.adoc
index dee2aa3d3..b84d1f7d7 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.adoc
+++ b/CHANGELOG.adoc
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 This document provides a high-level view of the changes to the {project-name} by release.
 For a detailed view of what has changed, refer to the {uri-repo}/commits/master[commit history] on GitHub.
 
-== Unreleased
+== 1.5.0.beta.2 (2019-07-30) - @mojavelinux
 
 * only apply title page background image to the title page (#1144)
 * make sure title page background or color (and only title page background or color) gets applied to title page even when page has already been created (#1144)
diff --git a/README.adoc b/README.adoc
index 2d4596a42..b5d68372d 100644
--- a/README.adoc
+++ b/README.adoc
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 = Asciidoctor PDF: A native PDF converter for AsciiDoc
 Dan Allen <https://github.com/mojavelinux[@mojavelinux]>; Sarah White <https://github.com/graphitefriction[@graphitefriction]>
+v1.5.0.beta.2, 2019-07-30
 // Settings:
 :experimental:
 :idprefix:
@@ -23,7 +24,7 @@ endif::[]
 :project-name: Asciidoctor PDF
 :project-handle: asciidoctor-pdf
 // Variables:
-:release-version: 1.5.0.beta.1
+:release-version: 1.5.0.beta.2
 // URIs:
 :uri-asciidoctor: http://asciidoctor.org
 :uri-gem: http://rubygems.org/gems/asciidoctor-pdf
diff --git a/lib/asciidoctor-pdf/version.rb b/lib/asciidoctor-pdf/version.rb
index 3b4774531..9ed1dc52b 100644
--- a/lib/asciidoctor-pdf/version.rb
+++ b/lib/asciidoctor-pdf/version.rb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # frozen_string_literal: true
 module Asciidoctor
 module PDF
-  VERSION = '1.5.0.beta.2.dev'
+  VERSION = '1.5.0.beta.2'
 end
 Pdf = PDF unless const_defined? :Pdf, false
 end