diff --git a/kedro-datasets/RELEASE.md b/kedro-datasets/RELEASE.md
index a4043d97a..bc420e2e9 100755
--- a/kedro-datasets/RELEASE.md
+++ b/kedro-datasets/RELEASE.md
@@ -1,4 +1,7 @@
 # Upcoming Release
+
+
+# Release 5.0.0
 ## Major features and improvements
 * Removed support for Python 3.9
 * Added the following new **experimental** datasets:
diff --git a/kedro-datasets/kedro_datasets/__init__.py b/kedro-datasets/kedro_datasets/__init__.py
index 345e5b73a..61425b9d2 100644
--- a/kedro-datasets/kedro_datasets/__init__.py
+++ b/kedro-datasets/kedro_datasets/__init__.py
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 """``kedro_datasets`` is where you can find all of Kedro's data connectors."""
 
 __all__ = ["KedroDeprecationWarning"]
-__version__ = "4.1.0"
+__version__ = "5.0.0"
 
 import sys
 import warnings
diff --git a/kedro-datasets/pyproject.toml b/kedro-datasets/pyproject.toml
index b357d8038..706d2c80d 100644
--- a/kedro-datasets/pyproject.toml
+++ b/kedro-datasets/pyproject.toml
@@ -193,7 +193,7 @@ rioxarray = ["kedro-datasets[rioxarray-geotiffdataset]"]
 
 # Docs requirements
 docs = [
-    "kedro-sphinx-theme==2024.4.0",
+    "kedro-sphinx-theme==2024.10.2",
     "ipykernel>=5.3, <7.0",
     "Jinja2<3.2.0",
 ]