From a82f73b87b6329a296d4a606de11c2de273e88c4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tim Abbott <tabbott@zulip.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2022 18:10:22 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Release Zulip Server 5.0-rc1.

---
 docs/overview/changelog.md | 2 +-
 version.py                 | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs/overview/changelog.md b/docs/overview/changelog.md
index c6ab348144..982f22eaa3 100644
--- a/docs/overview/changelog.md
+++ b/docs/overview/changelog.md
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ This page the release history for the Zulip server. See also the
 
 ## Zulip 5.x series
 
-### 5.0 -- unreleased
+### 5.0-rc1 -- March 15, 2022
 
 This section is an incomplete draft of the release notes for the next
 major release, and is only updated occasionally. See the [commit
diff --git a/version.py b/version.py
index 0157445a43..3de765d102 100644
--- a/version.py
+++ b/version.py
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 import os
 
-ZULIP_VERSION = "5.0-dev+git"
+ZULIP_VERSION = "5.0-rc1"
 
 # Add information on number of commits and commit hash to version, if available
 zulip_git_version_file = os.path.join(