diff --git a/docs/docs/conda.md b/docs/docs/conda.md
index 5be5bb8e4..346561d02 100644
--- a/docs/docs/conda.md
+++ b/docs/docs/conda.md
@@ -12,8 +12,8 @@ There are Conda packages for Cylon C++ and Python libraries (libcylon and pycylo
 The following command will install the latest version of Cylon.
 
 ```bash
-conda create -n cylon-0.4.0 -c cylondata pycylon python=3.7
-conda activate cylon-0.4.0
+conda create -n cylon-dev -c cylondata pycylon python=3.7
+conda activate cylon-dev
 ```
 
 Now you can run an example to see if everything is working fine.
diff --git a/docs/docs/contributors.md b/docs/docs/contributors.md
index 13a742f63..4e4b2b3c5 100644
--- a/docs/docs/contributors.md
+++ b/docs/docs/contributors.md
@@ -15,4 +15,4 @@ Contributors to the Cylon project are listed below.
 8. Damitha Sandeepa Lenadora
 9. Hasara Maithree
 10. Saliya Ekanayake
-
+11. Kaiying Shan
diff --git a/docs/docs/release/cylon_release_0.5.0.md b/docs/docs/release/cylon_release_0.5.0.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..dfc3f2018
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/docs/release/cylon_release_0.5.0.md
@@ -0,0 +1,153 @@
+---
+id: 0.5.0
+title: Cylon Release 0.5.0
+sidebar_label: Cylon Release 0.5.0
+---
+
+Cylon 0.5.0 is a major release. We are excited to present **GCylon**, cudf-based distributed 
+DataFrame for Nvidia GPUs, UCX integration, Anaconda support, and much more. 
+
+## Features 
+
+### Cylon C++ and Python
+- Adding UCX integration with MPI
+- Adding read distribution
+- Changing join column naming convention to match SQL and pandas
+- Adding `Dataframe.applymap`, `Dataframe.isin`
+- Add iloc operation to DataFrame
+- Adding null handling to table operators and Comparators
+- Adding Equal/ distributed equal operators
+- Adding array flattening
+- Adding Repartition
+- Adding mapreduce style group-by aggregators
+- Adding table level AllGather, Gather and Broadcast operators
+- Performance improvements and bug fixes
+
+
+### Build
+- Updating to Arrow 0.5.x
+- Windows build support
+- MacOS build support
+- Conda build is the default build
+- Improving docker build
+
+### Gcylon
+First release of Gcylon which supports distributed DataFrame processing on Nvidia GPUs using CuDF:
+- Implemented shuffling and distributed sorting
+- Distributed Join/merge
+- Distributed GroupBy
+- DataFrame Set operations
+- Repartitioning DataFrames
+- Distributed IO for reading/writing CSV, JSON and Parquet files
+
+
+You can download source code from [Github](https://github.com/cylondata/cylon/releases)
+Conda binaries are available in [Anaconda](https://anaconda.org/cylondata)
+
+## Commits
+
+3344bf95 Mapreduce style group-by aggregators  (#535)
+50ef890b Remove minor warnings (#544)
+559e8eb3 Adding CPU serializer (#539)
+abb44049 fixed unused variable/parameter and casting warnings (#542)
+62a3f080 Distributed IO (#533)
+15d06d6c Bump color-string from 1.5.4 to 1.7.4 in /docs (#534)
+810c4ed7 fixing RNG issue (#538)
+fbb049bb fixing build error (#536)
+a10e0528 Bump algoliasearch-helper from 3.3.3 to 3.6.2 in /docs (#532)
+112ea97f Repartition - CPU (#526)
+79c4b739 create a MacOS yml file (#530)
+b9e7a8c4 Repartition - GPU (#528)
+2191b9f5 fixed function name change in cudf api from gcylon test files (#529)
+3e9036ee Upgrading to arrow 5.0.0 (#525)
+24d182ab Groupby values null handling  (#527)
+54a5074b Null handling for Comparators  (#524)
+0b9516e7 Adding array flattening  (#522)
+b3fc2a2a Implemented MergeOrSort when merging sorted tables (#523)
+1e061b2f Feature/equal (#499)
+e378d1dc reformatted gcylon codes with tab size 2, non-functional changes (#521)
+8450d9b1 Added support for sliced tables in gather, broadcast and sorting (#520)
+92b8124c Update windows.yml
+1f9790d7 Update macos.yml
+d33f9ac8 Update conda-actions.yml
+963d4914 Update c-cpp.yml
+2229981d added mpi datatype dispatching for primitive data types (#519)
+d9936b4d Head tail operators (#512)
+ac99d009 Formatting code (#518)
+fff84ccb Code formatting  (#517)
+f32f04da Null handling in splitters and build arrays (#511)
+4cab7ca4 Delete files from CPP example folder that are not needed (#516)
+d1744302 moving tutorial repo to (#514)
+9cd7911f Python example cleanup (#513)
+fe4caf37 Distributed sorting (#510)
+2302f58f Minor improvements to the Table API (#508)
+71eb80a1 adding new test utils (#507)
+24b83dd3 Adding to docker docs (#498)
+6f2faf8f Update conda.md
+4f8f3c7f Gcylon docs (#501)
+a7862580 Adding contributing guide to documentation (#496)
+8ab8b2d6 changing join column naming convention to match SQL and pandas (#487)
+f18b91fe improvements to ucx build from conda (#484)
+912fb543 Windows build (#482)
+216758a2 making improvements to the build (#483)
+4e2894eb Add functions to dataframe (#481)
+1f1ddd9c Documentation update (#479)
+e6233151 Bump tar from 6.1.5 to 6.1.11 in /docs (#477)
+1e5db7b6 improve docs (#476)
+58c0595d removing extra examples (#474)
+3c823f6f Gcylon integration (#470)
+92748eb5 Cpp example cleanup (#475)
+fa14527d Docs improvements (#469)
+13062206 Bump url-parse from 1.4.7 to 1.5.3 in /docs (#473)
+8234ae7b Bump path-parse from 1.0.6 to 1.0.7 in /docs (#472)
+c8b435b6 Bump tar from 6.0.5 to 6.1.5 in /docs (#471)
+1cc28dd3 Performance improvements (#453)
+9092bbf0 MacOS build (#464)
+d59d91ea Add iloc operation to DataFrame (#465)
+8d7a8dc7 Removed glog files from the header files (#463)
+ea62eef0 License updates (#462)
+2f562650 changed all relative Cylon header references to global (#461)
+123c93c3 Building in conda env without using conda-build (#457)
+3b3a2853 Compilation document improvements (#454)
+8578b1f1 Adding barrier at the end of the test case (#458)
+e6eded5f Fix for empty df (#455)
+8f149924 Fixed mpi test case (#456)
+cb069980 Changes to the Docs (#451)
+4ce1d7eb updates to the docker readme
+e011e0f6 enhancing readme
+adfa6c05 adding read distribution (#432)
+bd2e024d UCX integration (#439)
+a42d04ad Bump ws from 6.2.1 to 6.2.2 in /docs (#437)
+710b562e Bump dns-packet from 1.3.1 to 1.3.4 in /docs (#435)
+07aee740 adding new operators to DataFrame API (#429)
+71e57f84 Updating to arrow 4.0 (#418)
+a490dc21 changing ctx to const reference in methods (#419)
+18a5447b missing docs (#428)
+38534f55 0.4.1 release (#427)
+10f5a6a3 Enabling scalars in df set_item (#425)
+0be78972 Op bench refactor (#417)
+ec964d89 Bug fixes in dataframe  (#420)
+e0ba9643 Update c-cpp.yml
+0200c021 adding finalize check and removing destructor finalize call. (#412)
+149919c2 Update README.md
+016c5c92 adding missing test case
+56095357 Update README.md
+e3ca0bf5 0.4.0 release (#411)
+
+## Contributors
+
+Ahmet Uyar
+Chathura Widanage
+Damitha Sandeepa Lenadora
+dependabot[bot]
+Hasara Maithree
+Kaiying Shan
+niranda perera
+Supun Kamburugamuve
+Vibhatha Lakmal Abeykoon
+Ziyao22
+
+
+## License
+
+Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0: http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
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