diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 660a1c90f8..ee7016e294 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 OpenLDAP 2.6 Change Log
 
-OpenLDAP 2.6.5 Engineering
+OpenLDAP 2.6.5 Release (2023/07/10)
 	Fixed libldap handling of TCP KEEPALIVE options (ITS#10015)
 	Fixed libldap with async connections (ITS#10023)
 	Fixed libldap openssl TLSv1.3 cipher suite handling (ITS#10035)
diff --git a/build/version.var b/build/version.var
index 2caf0a233d..cde428f717 100644
--- a/build/version.var
+++ b/build/version.var
@@ -15,9 +15,9 @@
 ol_package=OpenLDAP
 ol_major=2
 ol_minor=6
-ol_patch=X
-ol_api_inc=20604
+ol_patch=5
+ol_api_inc=20605
 ol_api_current=2
 ol_api_revision=200
 ol_api_age=0
-ol_release_date="2023/02/08"
+ol_release_date="2023/07/10"