diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index b97311513..8d1c4c881 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Package: vctrs
 Title: Vector Helpers
-Version: 0.6.4.9000
+Version: 0.6.5
 Authors@R: c(
     person("Hadley", "Wickham", , "hadley@posit.co", role = "aut"),
     person("Lionel", "Henry", , "lionel@posit.co", role = "aut"),
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 788e4fd51..48107b5bd 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# vctrs (development version)
+# vctrs 0.6.5
 
 * Internal changes requested by CRAN around C level format strings (#1896).
 
diff --git a/src/version.c b/src/version.c
index 6580b4cdd..7946cd3ca 100644
--- a/src/version.c
+++ b/src/version.c
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #define R_NO_REMAP
 #include <Rinternals.h>
 
-const char* vctrs_version = "0.6.4.9000";
+const char* vctrs_version = "0.6.5";
 
 /**
  * This file records the expected package version in the shared