diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index d7cf46d..0fd0335 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "turbonet"
-version = "0.4.16"
+version = "0.5.0"
 edition = "2021"
 authors = ["Rach Pradhan <rach@turboapi.dev>"]
 description = "High-performance Python web framework core - Rust-powered HTTP server with Python 3.14 free-threading support, FastAPI-compatible security and middleware"
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 4362cee..4d623ae 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ build-backend = "maturin"
 
 [project]
 name = "turboapi"
-version = "0.4.16"
+version = "0.5.0"
 description = "FastAPI-compatible web framework with Rust HTTP core - 2-3x faster with Python 3.13 free-threading"
 readme = "README.md"
 requires-python = ">=3.13"