diff --git a/CHANGELOG.rst b/CHANGELOG.rst
index d27ecc4e..47a4e910 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.rst
+++ b/CHANGELOG.rst
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@
 Changelog for package rcutils
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 
-Forthcoming
------------
+6.5.2 (2024-02-07)
+------------------
 * Clean up unused references to mimick/mocking in tests (`#450 <https://github.com/ros2/rcutils/issues/450>`_)
 * Fix if(TARGET ...) condition for test (`#447 <https://github.com/ros2/rcutils/issues/447>`_)
 * Zero-initialize rcutils_string_array_t in test_string_array (`#446 <https://github.com/ros2/rcutils/issues/446>`_)
diff --git a/package.xml b/package.xml
index 1122a0ed..bd829999 100644
--- a/package.xml
+++ b/package.xml
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 <?xml-model href="http://download.ros.org/schema/package_format2.xsd" schematypens="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"?>
 <package format="2">
   <name>rcutils</name>
-  <version>6.5.1</version>
+  <version>6.5.2</version>
   <description>Package containing various utility types and functions for C</description>
 
   <maintainer email="alejandro@openrobotics.org">Alejandro Hernandez Cordero</maintainer>