diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 9ed1826aa..3bcb67473 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# UNRELEASED
+# 5.20.0
   - Changes from 5.19.0:
     - Table:
       - CHANGED: switch to pre-calculated distances for table responses for large speedup and 10% memory increase. [#5251](https://github.com/Project-OSRM/osrm-backend/pull/5251)
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 7c0f7001b..d5c9a63a1 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "osrm",
-  "version": "5.20.0-latest.1",
+  "version": "5.20.0-rc.1",
   "private": false,
   "description": "The Open Source Routing Machine is a high performance routing engine written in C++14 designed to run on OpenStreetMap data.",
   "dependencies": {