diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index a52c8055..b38b3d6b 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,6 +1,32 @@
 NEWS
 ====
 
+2.5.0 - Septembre 2nd 2015
+--------------------------
+151 commits, 180 files changed, 8391 insertions, 1339 deletions
+
+ - lots of bugfixes (reported by static analysis tools like clang,
+   coverity and manual inspection) thanks to Simo Sorce and John Dennis from
+   RedHat
+ - xsd:choices are now parsed correctly by implementing a real finite automata
+   for parsing XML documents. New flag for jumping forward and backward in
+   schema snippets have been added. It fixes parsing of message from third
+   party not following the ordre from the schema (they are entitled to do it but
+   most SAML implementations do not)
+ - added C CGI examples for SP and IdP side
+ - removed the _POSIX_SOURCE declaration
+ - added support for the SHA-2 family of hash functions
+ - fixed protocol profile selection when parsing AuthnRequest
+ - added support for Python 3, thanks to Houzéfa Abbasbhay from XCG Consulting
+ - fixed default value of WantAuthnRequestSigned in metadata parsing
+ - SAML 2.0 ECP is now functionnal, thanks to John Dennis from RedHat
+ - added two new API function to LassoProfile to extract the Issuer and
+   InResponseTo attribute of messages, allowing pre-treatment before parsing
+   the message, to load the metadata of the remote provider, or find the request
+   which the response matches.
+ - fixed segfault when parsing HTTP-Redirect marlformed base64 content
+ - added support for automake 1.15 (jdennis)
+
 2.4.1 - August 28th 2014
 ---------------------------
 56 commits, 35 files changed, 12590 insertions(+), 31117 deletions(-)
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index d3e04903..7a1a6ce1 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ dnl - interfaces removed -> AGE = 0
 # m = a
 # r = r
 current=`expr $VERSION_MAJOR + $VERSION_MINOR`
-LASSO_VERSION_INFO="14:1:11"
+LASSO_VERSION_INFO="15:0:12"
 AC_SUBST(LASSO_VERSION_INFO)
 
 dnl Compute the minimal supported ABI version for Win32 scripts and resources files.
diff --git a/website/web/doap.rdf b/website/web/doap.rdf
index eebcd0ff..7b444086 100644
--- a/website/web/doap.rdf
+++ b/website/web/doap.rdf
@@ -61,6 +61,10 @@
       </SVNRepository>
     </repository>
     <release>
+      <Version>
+        <created>2015-09-02</created>
+        <revision>2.5.0</revision>
+      </Version>
       <Version>
         <created>2014-08-28</created>
         <revision>2.4.1</revision>
diff --git a/website/web/download/index.xml b/website/web/download/index.xml
index 61b8e00c..a9f205ce 100644
--- a/website/web/download/index.xml
+++ b/website/web/download/index.xml
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 
 	<p>
 		All our <a href="https://dev.entrouvert.org/releases/lasso/">releases</a>
-		are available through HTTP. The latest is the 2.4.1.
+		are available through HTTP. The latest is the 2.5.0.
 	</p>
 
 	<h1>Binary Downloads</h1>
diff --git a/website/web/news/23-release-2.5.0.xml b/website/web/news/23-release-2.5.0.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..716adc30
--- /dev/null
+++ b/website/web/news/23-release-2.5.0.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+<?xml version="1.0"?>
+<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
+<h3>2015-09-02: Released 2.5.0</h3>
+
+ <p>
+  Lasso 2.5.0 has been released.
+	<a href="https://dev.entrouvert.org/releases/lasso/lasso-2.5.0.tar.gz">Download 2.5.0 now</a>
+ </p>
+
+ <p class="changes">
+  <strong>What changed ?</strong>
+  A lot, so look at the <a href="https://git.entrouvert.org/lasso.git/tree/NEWS?id=v2.5.0">NEWS</a> file.
+ </p>
+
+</div>