diff --git a/doc/release-notes.rst b/doc/release-notes.rst
index c8ab0a0a..e1a39ea2 100644
--- a/doc/release-notes.rst
+++ b/doc/release-notes.rst
@@ -5,14 +5,19 @@ History of Changes
 .. Upcoming Version
 .. ----------------
 
-Version 0.5.10 (30.01.2023)
--------------------------
+Version 0.5.11 (05.02.2024)
+---------------------------
+
+* The default configuration no longer filters out retired power plants. This filtering should be done by the user afterwards.
+
+Version 0.5.10 (30.01.2024)
+---------------------------
 
 * fix deprecation warnings for new pandas version for inplace operations
 * fix bus mapping in ``export`` module 
 
-Version 0.5.9 (16.01.2023)
--------------------------
+Version 0.5.9 (16.01.2024)
+--------------------------
 
 * fix deprecation warnings for new pandas version
 * lower GEM reliability score to fix DateIn and DateOut for some powerplants
diff --git a/powerplantmatching/__init__.py b/powerplantmatching/__init__.py
index fa57c4c1..5933d0dd 100644
--- a/powerplantmatching/__init__.py
+++ b/powerplantmatching/__init__.py
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 
 from __future__ import absolute_import
 
-__version__ = "0.5.10"
+__version__ = "0.5.11"
 __author__ = "Fabian Hofmann"
 __copyright__ = "Copyright 2017-2022 Technical University of Berlin"
 # The rough hierarchy of this package is
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 40b3c567..3d7d36f5 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 
 setup(
     name="powerplantmatching",
-    version="0.5.10",
+    version="0.5.11",
     author="Fabian Hofmann (FIAS), Jonas Hoersch (KIT), Fabian Gotzens (FZ Jülich)",
     author_email="hofmann@fias.uni-frankfurt.de",
     description="Toolset for generating and managing Power Plant Data",