diff --git a/kedro-telemetry/RELEASE.md b/kedro-telemetry/RELEASE.md
index a1f37cc26..848898356 100644
--- a/kedro-telemetry/RELEASE.md
+++ b/kedro-telemetry/RELEASE.md
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 # Upcoming release
+
+# Release 0.2.5
 * Migrate all project metadata to static `pyproject.toml`.
 
 # Release 0.2.4
diff --git a/kedro-telemetry/kedro_telemetry/__init__.py b/kedro-telemetry/kedro_telemetry/__init__.py
index e82bb7b67..f1d1629ba 100644
--- a/kedro-telemetry/kedro_telemetry/__init__.py
+++ b/kedro-telemetry/kedro_telemetry/__init__.py
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 """Kedro plugin for collecting Kedro usage data."""
 
-__version__ = "0.2.4"
+__version__ = "0.2.5"