diff --git a/.zenodo.json b/.zenodo.json
index f80be3c909b..4a9c0e96236 100644
--- a/.zenodo.json
+++ b/.zenodo.json
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 {
     "description": "Mirror of the Sage https://sagemath.org/ source tree", 
     "license": "other-open", 
-    "title": "sagemath/sage: 9.5.beta4", 
-    "version": "9.5.beta4", 
+    "title": "sagemath/sage: 9.5.beta5", 
+    "version": "9.5.beta5", 
     "upload_type": "software", 
-    "publication_date": "2021-10-19", 
+    "publication_date": "2021-10-28", 
     "creators": [
         {
             "affiliation": "SageMath.org", 
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
     "related_identifiers": [
         {
             "scheme": "url", 
-            "identifier": "https://github.com/sagemath/sage/tree/9.5.beta4", 
+            "identifier": "https://github.com/sagemath/sage/tree/9.5.beta5", 
             "relation": "isSupplementTo"
         }, 
         {
diff --git a/VERSION.txt b/VERSION.txt
index d035bc57e4b..c79c2d06798 100644
--- a/VERSION.txt
+++ b/VERSION.txt
@@ -1 +1 @@
-SageMath version 9.5.beta4, Release Date: 2021-10-19
+SageMath version 9.5.beta5, Release Date: 2021-10-28
diff --git a/build/pkgs/configure/checksums.ini b/build/pkgs/configure/checksums.ini
index 0b799f8f36f..858bfffb8f3 100644
--- a/build/pkgs/configure/checksums.ini
+++ b/build/pkgs/configure/checksums.ini
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 tarball=configure-VERSION.tar.gz
-sha1=b789b0cad7547f9b699a305d5cfe6a4b67d353df
-md5=ad65b7da919dcff932eb34a98793504b
-cksum=2565222951
+sha1=ab6592f2216c48049bbbcfb3a42c3e157f44d917
+md5=fc3a50e0f47802e55969eade44648af4
+cksum=3704729867
diff --git a/build/pkgs/configure/package-version.txt b/build/pkgs/configure/package-version.txt
index 7038ebe859c..0d3e25199f6 100644
--- a/build/pkgs/configure/package-version.txt
+++ b/build/pkgs/configure/package-version.txt
@@ -1 +1 @@
-dc6e96cb4344704cb6779ff68e024d06063d50ee
+c5a87834e7e2939b878a5134cd240e6c712bd573
diff --git a/build/pkgs/sagelib/package-version.txt b/build/pkgs/sagelib/package-version.txt
index 3fe69eb5038..2b08eebb761 100644
--- a/build/pkgs/sagelib/package-version.txt
+++ b/build/pkgs/sagelib/package-version.txt
@@ -1 +1 @@
-9.5.beta4
+9.5.beta5
diff --git a/src/VERSION.txt b/src/VERSION.txt
index 3fe69eb5038..2b08eebb761 100644
--- a/src/VERSION.txt
+++ b/src/VERSION.txt
@@ -1 +1 @@
-9.5.beta4
+9.5.beta5
diff --git a/src/bin/sage-version.sh b/src/bin/sage-version.sh
index 1fa6283f152..ed215d6aeb0 100644
--- a/src/bin/sage-version.sh
+++ b/src/bin/sage-version.sh
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # Sage version information for shell scripts
 # This file is auto-generated by the sage-update-version script, do not edit!
-SAGE_VERSION='9.5.beta4'
-SAGE_RELEASE_DATE='2021-10-19'
-SAGE_VERSION_BANNER='SageMath version 9.5.beta4, Release Date: 2021-10-19'
+SAGE_VERSION='9.5.beta5'
+SAGE_RELEASE_DATE='2021-10-28'
+SAGE_VERSION_BANNER='SageMath version 9.5.beta5, Release Date: 2021-10-28'
diff --git a/src/sage/version.py b/src/sage/version.py
index 0cd77c29e31..a0bf87ed037 100644
--- a/src/sage/version.py
+++ b/src/sage/version.py
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # Sage version information for Python scripts
 # This file is auto-generated by the sage-update-version script, do not edit!
-version = '9.5.beta4'
-date = '2021-10-19'
-banner = 'SageMath version 9.5.beta4, Release Date: 2021-10-19'
+version = '9.5.beta5'
+date = '2021-10-28'
+banner = 'SageMath version 9.5.beta5, Release Date: 2021-10-28'