diff --git a/core/CHANGELOG.md b/core/CHANGELOG.md
index e578bb8b5298..4cbab6c04896 100644
--- a/core/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/core/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -4,6 +4,13 @@
 
 [1]: https://pypi.org/project/google-cloud-core/#history
 
+## 1.0.2
+
+06/11/2019 15:19 PDT
+
+### Internal Changes 
+- Prevent requests from hanging on SSL handshake issue by adding a max timeout of 5 minutes. (#8207)
+
 ## 1.0.1
 
 05-28-2019 11:22 PDT
diff --git a/core/setup.py b/core/setup.py
index bd02724dd322..1388100aad43 100644
--- a/core/setup.py
+++ b/core/setup.py
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
 
 name = "google-cloud-core"
 description = "Google Cloud API client core library"
-version = "1.0.1"
+version = "1.0.2"
 # Should be one of:
 # 'Development Status :: 3 - Alpha'
 # 'Development Status :: 4 - Beta'