diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index d9e3c3cc7..542e215d6 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,18 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## v1.5.0 (2020-12-04)
+
+### Features
+
+ * Always accept identity observable factors
+
+### Documentation Changes
+
+ * backticks for batching tasks
+ * add punctuation to aws_session.py
+ * fix backticks, missing periods in quantum task docs
+ * fix backticks, grammar for aws_device.py
+
 ## v1.4.1 (2020-12-04)
 
 ### Bug Fixes and Other Changes
diff --git a/src/braket/_sdk/_version.py b/src/braket/_sdk/_version.py
index f1845183f..1f84723b8 100644
--- a/src/braket/_sdk/_version.py
+++ b/src/braket/_sdk/_version.py
@@ -15,4 +15,4 @@
    Version number (major.minor.patch[-label])
 """
 
-__version__ = "1.4.2.dev0"
+__version__ = "1.5.0"