diff --git a/extra/release.py b/extra/release.py
index 650c2c40b..b47de8966 100755
--- a/extra/release.py
+++ b/extra/release.py
@@ -170,6 +170,10 @@ Other changes:
 
 UpdateVersionCallable = Callable[[str, Version], str]
 FILENAME_AND_UPDATE_TEXT: list[tuple[Path, UpdateVersionCallable]] = [
+    (
+        PYPROJECT,
+        lambda text, new: re.sub(r"(?<=\nversion = )[^\n]+", f'"{new}"', text),
+    ),
     (CHANGELOG, update_changelog),
     (BASE / "docs" / "conf.py", update_docs_config),
 ]
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index b21d0d17a..b6c846a54 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [tool.poetry]
 name = "beets"
-version = "0.0.0"
+version = "2.5.0"
 description = "music tagger and library organizer"
 authors = ["Adrian Sampson <adrian@radbox.org>"]
 maintainers = ["Serene-Arc"]