diff --git a/RELEASE_NOTES.md b/RELEASE_NOTES.md
index e1b06b586..2a1e4e65f 100644
--- a/RELEASE_NOTES.md
+++ b/RELEASE_NOTES.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # WebGoat release notes
 
-## Version 2025.0
+## Version 2025.1
 
 ### 🚀 New functionality
 
@@ -43,6 +43,19 @@
 
 - Lots of dependency updates
 
+## Contributors
+
+Special thanks to the following contributors providing us with a pull request:
+
+- François Capon
+- GoogTech HackHuang
+- Peter Potrowl
+- cap-dev0x
+- Benjamin Mouncer
+- Jeong Rok Suh
+- Rui Melo
+- Vandeputte Brice
+
 ## Version 2023.8
 
 ### 🚀 New functionality
@@ -129,11 +142,11 @@ many more releases this year.
 
 - New year's resolution(2022): major refactoring of WebGoat to simplify the setup and improve building times.
 - Move away from multi-project setup:
-    * This has a huge performance benefit when building the application. Build time locally is now
-      `Total time:  42.469 s` (depends on your local machine of course)
-    * No longer add Maven dependencies in several places
-    * H2 no longer needs to run as separate process, which solves the issue of WebWolf sharing and needing to configure
-      the correct database connection.
+  * This has a huge performance benefit when building the application. Build time locally is now
+    `Total time:  42.469 s` (depends on your local machine of course)
+  * No longer add Maven dependencies in several places
+  * H2 no longer needs to run as separate process, which solves the issue of WebWolf sharing and needing to configure
+    the correct database connection.
 - More explicit paths in html files to reference `adoc` files, less magic.
 - Integrate WebWolf in WebGoat, the setup was way too complicated and needed configuration which could lead to mistakes
   and a not working application. This also simplifies the Docker configuration as there is only 1 Docker image.
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index af7dd7a6e..ca2610210 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 
   <groupId>org.owasp.webgoat</groupId>
   <artifactId>webgoat</artifactId>
-  <version>2025.0</version>
+  <version>2025.1</version>
   <packaging>jar</packaging>
 
   <name>WebGoat</name>