diff --git a/.bumpversion.cfg b/.bumpversion.cfg
index 98cba92e..d7ea1249 100644
--- a/.bumpversion.cfg
+++ b/.bumpversion.cfg
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 [bumpversion]
-current_version = 0.5.0.9000
+current_version = 0.5.0
 commit = True
 parse = (?P<major>\d+)\.(?P<minor>\d+)\.(?P<patch>\d+)(\.(?P<dev>\d+))?
 serialize = 
diff --git a/.github/workflows/conda_docker_pkgdown.yml b/.github/workflows/conda_docker_pkgdown.yml
index 744badb0..f9afbba4 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/conda_docker_pkgdown.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/conda_docker_pkgdown.yml
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ env:
   recipe_path: deploy/conda/recipe
   env_yaml_path: deploy/conda/env/yaml
   env_lock_path: deploy/conda/env/lock
-  VERSION: '0.5.0.9000' # versioned by bump2version
+  VERSION: '0.5.0' # versioned by bump2version
 
 jobs:
   condarise-dockerise-document:
diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index e8b01d40..687dacc4 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Package: RNAsum
 Title: A Robust Tool for Performing Transcriptome Profiling on Cancer Data
-Version: 0.5.0.9000
+Version: 0.5.0
 Authors@R: 
     c(person(given = "Sehrish",
              family = "Kanwal",
diff --git a/deploy/conda/env/yaml/rnasum.yaml b/deploy/conda/env/yaml/rnasum.yaml
index 84f537b4..50d7421c 100644
--- a/deploy/conda/env/yaml/rnasum.yaml
+++ b/deploy/conda/env/yaml/rnasum.yaml
@@ -6,4 +6,4 @@ channels:
   - bioconda
 
 dependencies:
-  - r-rnasum ==0.5.0.9000 # versioned by bump2version
+  - r-rnasum ==0.5.0 # versioned by bump2version
diff --git a/deploy/conda/recipe/meta.yaml b/deploy/conda/recipe/meta.yaml
index 46c37017..2d367070 100644
--- a/deploy/conda/recipe/meta.yaml
+++ b/deploy/conda/recipe/meta.yaml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 package:
   name: r-rnasum
-  version: 0.5.0.9000 # bump2version
+  version: 0.5.0 # bump2version
 
 source:
   path: ../../../