diff --git a/sentry.go b/sentry.go
index 7f2c7df40..8885d7852 100644
--- a/sentry.go
+++ b/sentry.go
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ import (
 )
 
 // Version is the version of the sentry-go SDK.
-const Version = "0.4.0"
+const Version = "0.5.0"
 
 // apiVersion is the minimum version of the Sentry API compatible with the
 // sentry-go SDK.