diff --git a/CHANGELOG.rst b/CHANGELOG.rst
index 5aade4b83b5..5c4cd69383b 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.rst
+++ b/CHANGELOG.rst
@@ -5,6 +5,32 @@ community.aws Release Notes
 .. contents:: Topics
 
 
+v5.5.0
+======
+
+Release Summary
+---------------
+
+This release contains a number of bugfixes for various modules, as well as new features for the ``ec2_launch_template`` and ``msk_cluster`` modules.  This is the last planned minor release prior to the release of version 6.0.0.
+
+
+Minor Changes
+-------------
+
+- ec2_launch_template - Add parameter ``version_description`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.aws/pull/1763).
+- msk_cluster - add option for SASL/IAM authentication and add support to disable unauthenticated clients (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.aws/issues/1761).
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- cloudformation_stack_set - add a waiter to ensure that update operation complete before adding stack instances (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.aws/issues/1608).
+- eks_nodegroup - fix handling of ``remote_access`` option (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.aws/issues/1771).
+- elasticache_info - ignore the ``CacheClusterNotFound`` exception when collecting tags (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.aws/pull/1777).
+- elb_target_group - ensure ``AvailabilityZone`` is kept in target definitions when ``Id`` and ``Port`` are passed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.aws/issues/1736).
+- elb_target_group - get ``ProtocolVersion`` key from ``target_group`` attributes only when exists (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.aws/pull/1800).
+- msk_cluster - fix creating a cluster with SASL/SCRAM authentication (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.aws/issues/1761).
+- s3_lifecycle - fix invalid value type for transitions list (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.aws/issues/1774)
+
 v5.4.0
 ======
 
diff --git a/changelogs/changelog.yaml b/changelogs/changelog.yaml
index 119312078df..5f6a1962ccb 100644
--- a/changelogs/changelog.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/changelog.yaml
@@ -3286,3 +3286,40 @@ releases:
     - 488-ecs_service-support_exec.yml
     - release-5.4.0.yml
     release_date: '2023-03-27'
+  5.5.0:
+    changes:
+      bugfixes:
+      - cloudformation_stack_set - add a waiter to ensure that update operation complete
+        before adding stack instances (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.aws/issues/1608).
+      - eks_nodegroup - fix handling of ``remote_access`` option (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.aws/issues/1771).
+      - elasticache_info - ignore the ``CacheClusterNotFound`` exception when collecting
+        tags (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.aws/pull/1777).
+      - elb_target_group - ensure ``AvailabilityZone`` is kept in target definitions
+        when ``Id`` and ``Port`` are passed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.aws/issues/1736).
+      - elb_target_group - get ``ProtocolVersion`` key from ``target_group`` attributes
+        only when exists (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.aws/pull/1800).
+      - msk_cluster - fix creating a cluster with SASL/SCRAM authentication (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.aws/issues/1761).
+      - s3_lifecycle - fix invalid value type for transitions list (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.aws/issues/1774)
+      minor_changes:
+      - ec2_launch_template - Add parameter ``version_description`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.aws/pull/1763).
+      - msk_cluster - add option for SASL/IAM authentication and add support to disable
+        unauthenticated clients (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.aws/issues/1761).
+      release_summary: 'This release contains a number of bugfixes for various modules,
+        as well as new features for the ``ec2_launch_template`` and ``msk_cluster``
+        modules.  This is the last planned minor release prior to the release of version
+        6.0.0.
+
+        '
+    fragments:
+    - 1736-elb_target_group_property.yml
+    - 1757-config_rule-evaluation-mode.yml
+    - 1761-msk_cluster-fix-authentication.yml
+    - 1763-ec2-launch-template-add-version-description.yml
+    - 1771-remote-access.yml
+    - 1797-s3-acls.yml
+    - 1800-elb_target_group_property.yml
+    - 20230424-cloudformation_stack_set.yml
+    - 20230424-s3_lifecycle.yml
+    - elasticache_info-ignore-CacheClusterNotFound-when-reading-tags.yaml
+    - release-notes.yml
+    release_date: '2023-05-05'
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/1736-elb_target_group_property.yml b/changelogs/fragments/1736-elb_target_group_property.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 7a760816add..00000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/1736-elb_target_group_property.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - elb_target_group - ensure ``AvailabilityZone`` is kept in target definitions when ``Id`` and ``Port`` are passed (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.aws/issues/1736).
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/1761-msk_cluster-fix-authentication.yml b/changelogs/fragments/1761-msk_cluster-fix-authentication.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index ebf5f1595a8..00000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/1761-msk_cluster-fix-authentication.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-- msk_cluster - fix creating a cluster with sasl_scram authentication (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.aws/issues/1761).
-minor_changes:
-- msk_cluster - add option for sasl_iam authentication and add support to disable "unauthenticated" clients (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.aws/issues/1761)
-trivial:
-- msk_cluster - changed test to 2.8.1 the recommended default version from MSK
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/1763-ec2-launch-template-add-version-description.yml b/changelogs/fragments/1763-ec2-launch-template-add-version-description.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 000c5994f42..00000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/1763-ec2-launch-template-add-version-description.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - ec2_launch_template - Add parameter ``version_description`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.aws/pull/1763).
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/1771-remote-access.yml b/changelogs/fragments/1771-remote-access.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 6375fc12c6f..00000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/1771-remote-access.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - eks_nodegroup - fix parameter options of ``remote_access`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.aws/issues/1771).
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/1797-s3-acls.yml b/changelogs/fragments/1797-s3-acls.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 15d0cd14ec0..00000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/1797-s3-acls.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-trivial:
-- s3_sync - fix tests broken by AWS changing default permissions
-- s3_logging - fix tests broken by AWS changing default permissions
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/1800-elb_target_group_property.yml b/changelogs/fragments/1800-elb_target_group_property.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 3c8e2625680..00000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/1800-elb_target_group_property.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - elb_target_group - get ``ProtocolVersion`` key from ``target_group`` attributes only when exists (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.aws/pull/1800).
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/20230424-cloudformation_stack_set.yml b/changelogs/fragments/20230424-cloudformation_stack_set.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 83fbad2369c..00000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/20230424-cloudformation_stack_set.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
----
-bugfixes:
-  - cloudformation_stack_set - add a waiter to ensure that update operation complete before adding stack instances (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.aws/issues/1608).
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/20230424-s3_lifecycle.yml b/changelogs/fragments/20230424-s3_lifecycle.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 599add8591a..00000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/20230424-s3_lifecycle.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
----
-bugfixes:
-  - s3_lifecycle - fix invalid value type for transitions list (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.aws/issues/1774)
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/elasticache_info-ignore-CacheClusterNotFound-when-reading-tags.yaml b/changelogs/fragments/elasticache_info-ignore-CacheClusterNotFound-when-reading-tags.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index d8ef3c31c69..00000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/elasticache_info-ignore-CacheClusterNotFound-when-reading-tags.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
----
-bugfixes:
-- "elasticache_info - Ignore the CacheClusterNotFound exception when collecting tags (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.aws/pull/1777)."