diff --git a/RELEASES.md b/RELEASES.md
index d56f9aaa8..846c906b0 100644
--- a/RELEASES.md
+++ b/RELEASES.md
@@ -1,7 +1,14 @@
 # Releases
 
-## 0.9.5dev
+## 0.9.5
 
+*November 2024*
+
+This new release contains several new features, starting with
+a novel [Gaussian Mixture Model Optimal Transport (GMM-OT)](https://pythonot.github.io/master/gen_modules/ot.gmm.html#examples-using-ot-gmm-gmm-ot-apply-map) solver to compare GMM while enforcing the transport plan to remain a GMM, that benefits from a closed-form solution making it practical for high-dimensional matching problems. We also extended our general unbalanced OT solvers to support any non-negative reference measure in the regularization terms, before adding the novel [translation invariant UOT](https://pythonot.github.io/master/auto_examples/unbalanced-partial/plot_conv_sinkhorn_ti.html) solver showcasing a higher convergence speed. We also implemented several new solvers and enhanced existing ones to perform OT across spaces. These include a [semi-relaxed FGW barycenter](https://pythonot.github.io/master/auto_examples/gromov/plot_semirelaxed_gromov_wasserstein_barycenter.html) solver, coupled with new initialization heuristics for the inner divergence computation, to perform graph partitioning or dictionary learning. Followed by novel [unbalanced FGW and Co-optimal transport](https://pythonot.github.io/master/auto_examples/others/plot_outlier_detection_with_COOT_and_unbalanced_COOT.html) solvers to promote robustness to outliers in such matching problems. And we finally updated the implementation of partial GW now supporting asymmetric structures and the KL divergence, while leveraging a new generic conditional gradient solver for partial transport problems enabling significant speed improvements. These latest updates required some modifications to the line search functions of our generic conditional gradient solver, paving the way for future improvements to other GW-based solvers. Last but not least, we implemented a pre-commit scheme to automatically correct common programming mistakes likely to be made by our future contributors.
+
+This release also contains few bug fixes, concerning the support of any metric in `ot.emd_1d` / `ot.emd2_1d`, and the support of any weights in `ot.gaussian`.
+ 
 #### Breaking change
 - Custom functions provided as parameter `line_search` to `ot.optim.generic_conditional_gradient` must now have the signature `line_search(cost, G, deltaG, Mi, cost_G, df_G, **kwargs)`, adding as input `df_G` the gradient of the regularizer evaluated at the transport plan `G`. This change aims at improving speed of solvers having quadratic polynomial functions as regularizer such as the Gromov-Wassertein loss (PR #663).
 
diff --git a/ot/__init__.py b/ot/__init__.py
index fa007c78f..2b0425a93 100644
--- a/ot/__init__.py
+++ b/ot/__init__.py
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@
 # utils functions
 from .utils import dist, unif, tic, toc, toq
 
-__version__ = "0.9.5dev0"
+__version__ = "0.9.5"
 
 __all__ = [
     "emd",
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 9417ee33e..ead0eccd3 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -57,8 +57,8 @@
     description="Python Optimal Transport Library",
     long_description=README,
     long_description_content_type="text/markdown",
-    author="Remi Flamary, Nicolas Courty, POT Contributors",
-    author_email="remi.flamary@gmail.com, ncourty@gmail.com",
+    author="Remi Flamary, Nicolas Courty, Cédric Vincent-Cuaz, POT Contributors",
+    author_email="remi.flamary@gmail.com, ncourty@gmail.com, cedvincentcuaz@gmail.com",
     url="https://github.com/PythonOT/POT",
     packages=find_packages(exclude=["benchmarks"]),
     ext_modules=cythonize(