diff --git a/pluginlib/CHANGELOG.rst b/pluginlib/CHANGELOG.rst
index ba1437d..cfe0f94 100644
--- a/pluginlib/CHANGELOG.rst
+++ b/pluginlib/CHANGELOG.rst
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@ Changelog for package pluginlib
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 
 
-Forthcoming
------------
+5.5.0 (2024-04-26)
+------------------
 
 5.4.2 (2024-03-28)
 ------------------
diff --git a/pluginlib/package.xml b/pluginlib/package.xml
index 6cc2911..3da3154 100644
--- a/pluginlib/package.xml
+++ b/pluginlib/package.xml
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 <?xml-model href="http://download.ros.org/schema/package_format2.xsd" schematypens="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"?>
 <package format="2">
   <name>pluginlib</name>
-  <version>5.4.2</version>
+  <version>5.5.0</version>
   <description>
     The pluginlib package provides tools for writing and dynamically loading plugins using the ROS build infrastructure.
     To work, these tools require plugin providers to register their plugins in the package.xml of their package.