diff --git a/gpt4all-chat/CMakeLists.txt b/gpt4all-chat/CMakeLists.txt
index f7884eb6..eeac680e 100644
--- a/gpt4all-chat/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/gpt4all-chat/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ endif()
 
 set(APP_VERSION_MAJOR 2)
 set(APP_VERSION_MINOR 5)
-set(APP_VERSION_PATCH 0)
+set(APP_VERSION_PATCH 1)
 set(APP_VERSION "${APP_VERSION_MAJOR}.${APP_VERSION_MINOR}.${APP_VERSION_PATCH}")
 
 # Include the binary directory for the generated header file
diff --git a/gpt4all-chat/metadata/release.json b/gpt4all-chat/metadata/release.json
index 791de337..a3304bff 100644
--- a/gpt4all-chat/metadata/release.json
+++ b/gpt4all-chat/metadata/release.json
@@ -529,6 +529,27 @@
     "contributors":
 "
 * Adam Treat (Nomic AI)
+"
+  },
+  {
+    "version": "2.5.0",
+    "notes":
+"
+* Major new release supports GGUF models only!
+* New models like Mistral Instruct, Replit 1.5, Rift Coder and more
+* All previous version of ggml-based models are no longer supported
+* Extensive changes to vulkan support
+* Better GPU error messages
+* Prompt processing on the GPU
+* Save chats now saves to text (less harddrive space)
+* Many more changes
+",
+    "contributors":
+"
+* Aaron Miller (Nomic AI)
+* Jared Van Bortel (Nomic AI)
+* Adam Treat (Nomic AI)
+* Community (beta testers, bug reporters, bindings authors)
 "
   }
 ]