diff --git a/.zenodo.json b/.zenodo.json
index 39c82453b..5f12a3a85 100644
--- a/.zenodo.json
+++ b/.zenodo.json
@@ -5,24 +5,14 @@
             "affiliation": "Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-6) and Institute for Advanced Simulation (IAS-6) and JARA-Institute Brain Structure-Function Relationships (INM-10), Jülich Research Centre, Jülich, Germany",
             "name": "Denker, Michael"
         },
-        {
-            "orcid": "0000-0003-0503-5264",
-            "affiliation": "Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-6) and Institute for Advanced Simulation (IAS-6) and JARA-Institute Brain Structure-Function Relationships (INM-10), Jülich Research Centre, Jülich, Germany",
-            "name": "Köhler, Cristiano"
-        },
         {
             "orcid": "0000-0001-7292-1982",
             "affiliation": "Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-6) and Institute for Advanced Simulation (IAS-6) and JARA-Institute Brain Structure-Function Relationships (INM-10), Jülich Research Centre, Jülich, Germany",
             "name": "Kern, Moritz"
-        },
-        {
-            "orcid": "0000-0003-3776-4226",
-            "affiliation": "Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-6) and Institute for Advanced Simulation (IAS-6) and JARA-Institute Brain Structure-Function Relationships (INM-10), Jülich Research Centre, Jülich, Germany",
-            "name": "Kleinjohann, Alexander"
         }
     ],
 
-    "title": "Elephant 0.14.0",
+    "title": "Elephant 1.0.0",
 
     "keywords": [
     "neuroscience",
diff --git a/codemeta.json b/codemeta.json
index 25fe3450c..ac6628943 100644
--- a/codemeta.json
+++ b/codemeta.json
@@ -6,11 +6,11 @@
     "contIntegration": "https://github.com/NeuralEnsemble/elephant/actions",
     "dateCreated": "2013-17-15",
     "datePublished": "2015-04-08",
-    "dateModified": "2023-10-31",
+    "dateModified": "2023-11-10",
     "downloadUrl": "https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/aa/e5/a42131ffa1de8e379ba56d67c85824d2471e6fbedcf710283f589c0dd4a4/elephant-0.13.0.tar.gz",
     "issueTracker": "https://github.com/NeuralEnsemble/elephant/issues",
     "name": "Elephant",
-    "version": "0.14.0",
+    "version": "1.0.0",
     "identifier": "https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1186602",
     "description": "Elephant (Electrophysiology Analysis Toolkit) is an open-source, community centered library for the analysis of electrophysiological data in the Python programming language. The focus of Elephant is on generic analysis functions for spike train data and time series recordings from electrodes, such as the local field potentials (LFP) or intracellular voltages.In addition to providing a common platform for analysis code from different laboratories, the Elephant project aims to provide a consistent and homogeneous analysis framework that is built on a modular foundation. \nElephant is the direct successor to Neurotools and maintains ties to complementary projects such as OpenElectrophy and spykeviewer.",
     "applicationCategory": "library",
@@ -51,16 +51,6 @@
                 "name": "Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-6) and Institute for Advanced Simulation (IAS-6) and JARA-Institute Brain Structure-Function Relationships (INM-10), Jülich Research Centre, Jülich, Germany"
             }
         },
-        {
-            "@type": "Person",
-            "@id": "https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0503-5264",
-            "givenName": "Cristiano",
-            "familyName": "Köhler",
-            "affiliation": {
-                "@type": "Organization",
-                "name": "Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-6) and Institute for Advanced Simulation (IAS-6) and JARA-Institute Brain Structure-Function Relationships (INM-10), Jülich Research Centre, Jülich, Germany"
-            }
-        },
         {
             "@type": "Person",
             "@id": "https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7292-1982",
@@ -70,16 +60,6 @@
                 "@type": "Organization",
                 "name": "Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-6) and Institute for Advanced Simulation (IAS-6) and JARA-Institute Brain Structure-Function Relationships (INM-10), Jülich Research Centre, Jülich, Germany"
             }
-        },
-        {
-            "@type": "Person",
-            "@id": "https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3776-4226",
-            "givenName": "Alexander",
-            "familyName": "Kleinjohann",
-            "affiliation": {
-                "@type": "Organization",
-                "name": "Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-6) and Institute for Advanced Simulation (IAS-6) and JARA-Institute Brain Structure-Function Relationships (INM-10), Jülich Research Centre, Jülich, Germany"
-            }
         }
     ]
 }
diff --git a/doc/release_notes.rst b/doc/release_notes.rst
index fa30c79ad..e2fec7ffd 100644
--- a/doc/release_notes.rst
+++ b/doc/release_notes.rst
@@ -3,6 +3,20 @@ Release Notes
 =============
 
 
+Release 1.0.0
+=============
+Elephant's first major release is focused on providing a stable and consistent API consistency that will be maintained over the 1.x series of releases. In order to provide future support, this release will remove all features and API specifications that have been deprecated over the course of the last releases of the 0.x line. While work on the next generation of Elephant will commence, all new analysis capabilities will be consistently back-ported to become available in the 1.x release line.
+
+Breaking changes
+----------------
+* Removed deprecated features and naming introduced in #316 with Elephant release v0.8.0 (#488).
+* Removed the `pandas_bridge` module from Elephant in line with the deprecation plan introduced with Elephant v0.7.0 (#530).
+
+Selected dependency changes
+---------------------------
+* removed pandas from the dependencies (#530).
+
+
 Elephant 0.14.0 release notes
 =============================
 
diff --git a/elephant/VERSION b/elephant/VERSION
index ac32ff029..3eefcb9dd 100644
--- a/elephant/VERSION
+++ b/elephant/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-0.15.0b1
+1.0.0