diff --git a/.release-please-manifest.json b/.release-please-manifest.json
index f953618..b8dcada 100644
--- a/.release-please-manifest.json
+++ b/.release-please-manifest.json
@@ -1 +1 @@
-{".": "2.4.0"}
\ No newline at end of file
+{".":"2.5.0"}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index b64f59b..92d8238 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,12 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## [2.5.0](https://github.com/pndurette/gTTS/compare/v2.4.0...v2.5.0) (2023-12-20)
+
+
+### Features
+
+* Add connection timeout + misc improvements ([#440](https://github.com/pndurette/gTTS/issues/440)) ([bcdb79d](https://github.com/pndurette/gTTS/commit/bcdb79df41e76c5c1e4fea6388d0eeb3f0c009f6))
+
 ## [2.4.0](https://github.com/pndurette/gTTS/compare/v2.3.2...v2.4.0) (2023-10-03)
 
 
diff --git a/gtts/version.py b/gtts/version.py
index 3d67cd6..50062f8 100644
--- a/gtts/version.py
+++ b/gtts/version.py
@@ -1 +1 @@
-__version__ = "2.4.0"
+__version__ = "2.5.0"
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 782a90e..0176a52 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [project]
 name = "gTTS"
-version = "2.4.0"
+version = "2.5.0"
 description = "gTTS (Google Text-to-Speech), a Python library and CLI tool to interface with Google Translate text-to-speech API"
 authors = [{name = "Pierre Nicolas Durette", email = "pndurette@gmail.com"}]
 requires-python = ">=3.7"