diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 274c3b74..c5b8c447 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -6,6 +6,10 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 
 ## [Unreleased]
 
+## [5.0.2] - 2024-03-28
+- Fix Smarty::assign() not returning $this when called with an array as first parameter [#972](https://github.com/smarty-php/smarty/pull/972)
+
+
 ## [5.0.1] - 2024-03-27
 - Fix error in Smarty\Smarty::compileAllTemplates() by including missing FilesystemIterator class [#966](https://github.com/smarty-php/smarty/issues/966)  
 
diff --git a/changelog/972.md b/changelog/972.md
deleted file mode 100644
index e1e930a3..00000000
--- a/changelog/972.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-- Fix Smarty::assign() not returning $this when called with an array as first parameter [#972](https://github.com/smarty-php/smarty/pull/972)
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/Smarty.php b/src/Smarty.php
index bf1d3fad..ce21710c 100644
--- a/src/Smarty.php
+++ b/src/Smarty.php
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ class Smarty extends \Smarty\TemplateBase {
 	/**
 	 * smarty version
 	 */
-	const SMARTY_VERSION = '5.0.1';
+	const SMARTY_VERSION = '5.0.2';
 
 	/**
 	 * define caching modes