diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md
index 6e7cf100..4d40481a 100644
--- a/CHANGES.md
+++ b/CHANGES.md
@@ -1,3 +1,14 @@
+Changes in version 5.0.0 (20230926) - Cinque, this is cinque!
+-------------------------------------------------------------
+- IMPORTANT - New (raised) requirements:
+  - PHP 7.4 and up supported (previously PHP 7.0 and up).
+  - Moodle v3.8.3 and up supported (previously Moodle v3.7.0).
+- Changed the process to build the plugin. Until now it was a tedious process, manually copying all the dependencies within the plugin (`PHP_CodeSniffer`, `PHPCompatibility`, `PHPCSExtra`, `PHPCSUtil` and `moodle-cs`). Now all the dependencies are managed via Composer and the plugin comes with the `vendor` directory ready to be used.
+- This change has been applied for improving the release process, and towards 100% automating it, now that the plugin is just a Web/CLI wrapper over all the tools listed above.
+- The old 4.x series will not receive more updates (unless absolutely needed).
+- Bundled dependencies updated:
+  - [moodle-cs](https://github.com/moodlehq/moodle-cs) updated to [v3.3.9](https://github.com/moodlehq/moodle-cs/releases/tag/v3.3.9).
+
 Changes in version 4.0.8 (20230923) - Few hours later
 -----------------------------------------------------
 - Bundled dependencies updated:
diff --git a/version.php b/version.php
index 859b6d8d..34ac25da 100644
--- a/version.php
+++ b/version.php
@@ -24,8 +24,8 @@
 
 defined('MOODLE_INTERNAL') || die;
 
-$plugin->version   = 2023092300;;
-$plugin->release   = '4.0.8';
+$plugin->version   = 2023092600;;
+$plugin->release   = '5.0.0';
 $plugin->maturity  = MATURITY_STABLE;
-$plugin->requires  = 2019052000; // Moodle 3.7 release and upwards.
+$plugin->requires  = 2019111803; // Moodle 3.8.3 release and upwards (first one supporting PHP 7.4).
 $plugin->component = 'local_codechecker';