Prepare for release
diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
index 36a5d64..ec66284 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-1.5.5 (Pending)
+1.5.5 (2017-12-06)
 * Fixed:  The concatenation extension released as part of 1.5.4 changed the way zip archives were
           constructed so that entries for some intermediate directories were elided. For most consumers
           of zip files this had no impact but some tools require the entries during scanning. (i.e. Older
diff --git a/doc/index.textile b/doc/index.textile
index 2fd4187..30f764d 100644
--- a/doc/index.textile
+++ b/doc/index.textile
@@ -46,6 +46,12 @@
 
 h2(#news).  What's New
 
+Highlights from Buildr 1.5.5 (2017-12-06)
+* Fixed:  The concatenation extension released as part of 1.5.4 changed the way zip archives were
+          constructed so that entries for some intermediate directories were elided. For most consumers
+          of zip files this had no impact but some tools require the entries during scanning. (i.e. Older
+          versions of Jruby that loaded ruby scripts from within a jar).
+
 Highlights from Buildr 1.5.4 (2017-11-29)
 * Added:  Findbugs Addon: Upgrade to version 3.0.1 of findbugs.
 * Added:  GPG Addon: Add boolean configuration setting `project.gpg` that can be set to false via
diff --git a/lib/buildr/version.rb b/lib/buildr/version.rb
index 0780c1b..70f9f05 100644
--- a/lib/buildr/version.rb
+++ b/lib/buildr/version.rb
@@ -14,5 +14,5 @@
 # the License.
 
 module Buildr #:nodoc:
-  VERSION = '1.5.5.dev'.freeze
+  VERSION = '1.5.5'.freeze
 end