diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 0d4cc58..5917213 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,6 +1,18 @@
 # Kong AWS Lambda plugin changelog
 
-## aws-lambda UNRELEASED
+### Releasing new versions
+
+- update changelog below
+- update rockspec version
+- update version in `handler.lua`
+- commit as `chore(*) release x.y.z`
+- tag commit as `x.y.z`
+- push commit and tags
+- upload to luarocks; `luarocks upload kong-plugin-aws-lambda-x.y.z-1.rockspec --api-key=abc...`
+- test rockspec; `luarocks install kong-plugin-aws-lambda`
+
+
+## aws-lambda 3.5.0 22-Sep-2020
 
 - feat: adding support for 'isBase64Encoded' flag in Lambda function responses
 - fix: respect `skip_large_bodies` config setting even when not using
diff --git a/kong-plugin-aws-lambda-3.4.0-1.rockspec b/kong-plugin-aws-lambda-3.5.0-1.rockspec
similarity index 88%
rename from kong-plugin-aws-lambda-3.4.0-1.rockspec
rename to kong-plugin-aws-lambda-3.5.0-1.rockspec
index 7ebcb58..1c59805 100644
--- a/kong-plugin-aws-lambda-3.4.0-1.rockspec
+++ b/kong-plugin-aws-lambda-3.5.0-1.rockspec
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 package = "kong-plugin-aws-lambda"
-version = "3.4.0-1"
+version = "3.5.0-1"
 
 supported_platforms = {"linux", "macosx"}
 source = {
-  url = "https://github.com/Kong/kong-plugin-aws-lambda/archive/3.4.0.tar.gz",
-  dir = "kong-plugin-aws-lambda-3.4.0"
+  url = "git://github.com/kong/kong-plugin-aws-lambda",
+  tag = "3.5.0",
 }
 
 description = {
diff --git a/kong/plugins/aws-lambda/handler.lua b/kong/plugins/aws-lambda/handler.lua
index a13c5bf..6728b83 100644
--- a/kong/plugins/aws-lambda/handler.lua
+++ b/kong/plugins/aws-lambda/handler.lua
@@ -314,6 +314,6 @@ function AWSLambdaHandler:access(conf)
 end
 
 AWSLambdaHandler.PRIORITY = 750
-AWSLambdaHandler.VERSION = "3.4.0"
+AWSLambdaHandler.VERSION = "3.5.0"
 
 return AWSLambdaHandler