diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index e589665f..ec4d030f 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,19 +1,13 @@
 # Changelog
 
-## Unreleased
+## 4.0.2
 
-Release date: YYYY-MM-DD
-
-Code freeze date: YYYY-MM-DD
-
-### Description
+Release date: 2023-09-27
 
 ### Dependency Changes
 
 - `pandas` >=1.5,<2.0 &rarr; >=1.5 (compatibility with pandas 2.x)
 
-### Added
-
 ### Changed
 
 - improved integration tests for notebooks and external data apis
@@ -22,10 +16,6 @@ Code freeze date: YYYY-MM-DD
 
 - implicit casting from `DataArray` to `int` in reading mehtods made explicit [#95](https://github.com/CLIMADA-project/climada_petals/pull/95/files)
 
-### Deprecated
-
-### Removed
-
 ## 4.0.1
 
 Release date: 2023-09-06
diff --git a/climada_petals/_version.py b/climada_petals/_version.py
index 76aed1a0..43917640 100644
--- a/climada_petals/_version.py
+++ b/climada_petals/_version.py
@@ -1 +1 @@
-__version__ = '4.0.1-dev'
+__version__ = '4.0.2'
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index fc44d38d..e33a1069 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 setup(
     name='climada_petals',
 
-    version='4.0.2-dev',
+    version='4.0.2',
 
     description='CLIMADA Extensions in Python',