diff --git a/RELEASENOTES.md b/RELEASENOTES.md
index 10c7022..86c5d8b 100644
--- a/RELEASENOTES.md
+++ b/RELEASENOTES.md
@@ -20,6 +20,25 @@
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 # Release Notes
                                               
+### 1.5.0 (Jan 15, 2016)
+* CB-10208 Fix `file-transfer` multipart form data upload format on **Windows**
+* CB-9837 Add data `URI` support to `file-transfer` upload on **iOS**
+* CB-9600 `FileUploadOptions` params not posted on **iOS**
+* CB-9840 Fallback `file-transfer` `uploadResponse` encoding to `latin1` in case not encoded with `UTF-8` on **iOS**
+* CB-9840 Fallback `file-transfer` upload/download response encoding to `latin1` in case not encoded with `UTF-8` on **iOS**
+* CB-8641 **Windows Phone 8.1** Some `file-transfer` plugin tests occasionally fail in `mobilespec`
+* Adding linting and fixing linter warnings. Reducing timeouts to 7 seconds.
+* CB-10100 updated file dependency to not grab new majors
+* CB-7006 Empty file is created on file transfer if server response is 304
+* CB-10098 `filetransfer.spec.33` is faulty
+* CB-9969 Filetransfer upload error deletes original file
+* CB-10088 `filetransfer spec.10` and `spec.11` test is faulty
+* CB-9969 Filetransfer upload error deletes original file
+* CB-10086 There are two `spec.31` tests for `file-transfer` tests
+* CB-10037 Add progress indicator to file-transfer manual tests
+* CB-9563 Mulptipart form data is used even a header named `Content-Type` is present
+* CB-8863 fix block usage of self
+
 ### 1.4.0 (Nov 18, 2015)
 * [CB-10035](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-10035) Updated `RELEASENOTES` to be newest to oldest
 * [CB-9879](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-9879) `getCookie`s can cause unhandled `NullPointerException`
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index d735bbe..6ab324f 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "cordova-plugin-file-transfer",
-  "version": "1.4.1-dev",
+  "version": "1.5.0",
   "description": "Cordova File Transfer Plugin",
   "cordova": {
     "id": "cordova-plugin-file-transfer",
diff --git a/plugin.xml b/plugin.xml
index 865a19b..bb732ee 100644
--- a/plugin.xml
+++ b/plugin.xml
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
 <plugin xmlns="http://apache.org/cordova/ns/plugins/1.0"
     xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
     id="cordova-plugin-file-transfer"
-    version="1.4.1-dev">
+    version="1.5.0">
     <name>File Transfer</name>
     <description>Cordova File Transfer Plugin</description>
     <license>Apache 2.0</license>
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
     <repo>https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/cordova-plugin-file-transfer.git</repo>
     <issue>https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB/component/12320650</issue>
 
-    <dependency id="cordova-plugin-file" version="^3.0.0" />
+    <dependency id="cordova-plugin-file" version="^4.0.0" />
 
     <js-module src="www/FileTransferError.js" name="FileTransferError">
         <clobbers target="window.FileTransferError" />
diff --git a/tests/plugin.xml b/tests/plugin.xml
index 5fa2119..855a7cd 100644
--- a/tests/plugin.xml
+++ b/tests/plugin.xml
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
 <plugin xmlns="http://apache.org/cordova/ns/plugins/1.0"
     xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
     id="cordova-plugin-file-transfer-tests"
-    version="1.4.1-dev">
+    version="1.5.0">
     <name>Cordova File Transfer Plugin Tests</name>
     <license>Apache 2.0</license>