diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index ce9f2be387..8ce74a7eaf 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -137,14 +137,12 @@ deployment:
 ### Conversations
 
 - **A Bot is told which apps it can use from its first message.** Its instructions name each app it
-  holds and where it stands for you, such as "Gmail (connected), Notion (needs connecting)", and
-  tell it to look an app's tools up rather than say it has no access. Bots are also told to say
-  what they did in plain words ("I checked your Gmail profile") and never to name a tool, such as
-  `GMAIL_GET_PROFILE`.
-- **A Bot says where each app stands the way its page does.** An app that's on but that you haven't
-  connected is "needs connecting", never ready. An app nobody connected isn't called connected,
-  each app gets one reason, and a tool a Bot holds but wasn't offered on that turn isn't called
-  missing. In the personal edition a Bot never mentions an admin.
+  holds and where it stands for you the way the app's page does, such as "Gmail (connected), Notion
+  (needs connecting)". An app you haven't connected is never listed as one it can reach, and a tool
+  it holds but isn't offered on a turn isn't called missing. It is told to look an app's tools up
+  rather than say it has no access, and in the personal edition never to mention an admin. Bots are
+  also told to say what they did in plain words ("I checked your Gmail profile") and never to name a
+  tool, such as `GMAIL_GET_PROFILE`.
 - **Bots answer in Markdown by default.** Ordinary questions, explanations, summaries and short
   lists come back as a reply. A notice card is kept for an alert that needs you to act, or for when
   you ask for one, and a chart, table or card is drawn when it makes the answer easier to use. Bots
diff --git a/charts/openbot/Chart.yaml b/charts/openbot/Chart.yaml
index 66232078d5..89525c280b 100644
--- a/charts/openbot/Chart.yaml
+++ b/charts/openbot/Chart.yaml
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ type: application
 version: 0.2.0
 # The OpenBot release this chart's default image tag points at. Kept equal to package.json's version
 # (the last version published) by the release workflow, and CI refuses a tree where they have drifted.
-appVersion: "1.0.0-rc.4"
+appVersion: "1.0.0-rc.5"
 home: https://github.com/CopilotKit/OpenBot
 sources:
   - https://github.com/CopilotKit/OpenBot
diff --git a/desktop/src-tauri/Cargo.lock b/desktop/src-tauri/Cargo.lock
index 51149ea915..1fab7cc8bc 100644
--- a/desktop/src-tauri/Cargo.lock
+++ b/desktop/src-tauri/Cargo.lock
@@ -2746,7 +2746,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "openbot-desktop"
-version = "1.0.0-rc.4"
+version = "1.0.0-rc.5"
 dependencies = [
  "base64 0.22.1",
  "block2",
diff --git a/desktop/src-tauri/Cargo.toml b/desktop/src-tauri/Cargo.toml
index ae088ad2df..b101ec9716 100644
--- a/desktop/src-tauri/Cargo.toml
+++ b/desktop/src-tauri/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "openbot-desktop"
-version = "1.0.0-rc.4"
+version = "1.0.0-rc.5"
 description = "OpenBot Desktop"
 edition = "2021"
 rust-version = "1.90"
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index edf1c1e489..f7ac31bc73 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "openbot",
-  "version": "1.0.0-rc.4",
+  "version": "1.0.0-rc.5",
   "license": "MIT",
   "private": true,
   "packageManager": "bun@1.4.3",
diff --git a/release-policy.json b/release-policy.json
index 7c99784136..959c321eaf 100644
--- a/release-policy.json
+++ b/release-policy.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "$schema": "./shared/release-policy.schema.json",
-  "version": "v1.0.0-rc.4",
+  "version": "v1.0.0-rc.5",
   "compatibility": {
     "launcherApi": 1,
     "configSchema": 1,