diff --git a/CHANGELOG.rst b/CHANGELOG.rst
index 69fc0e6..603fe2f 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.rst
+++ b/CHANGELOG.rst
@@ -1,6 +1,40 @@
 Changelog
 =========
 
+7.6.0a5 (2020-04-14)
+--------------------
+
+* Added support for Pandas v1.0.0 (`#141`_, contributed by `@mesejo`_)
+* Added ``use_pandas_index_for_es_ids`` parameter to ``pandas_to_eland()`` (`#154`_)
+* Added ``es_type_overrides`` parameter to ``pandas_to_eland()`` (`#181`_)
+* Added ``NDFrame.var()``, ``.std()`` and ``.median()`` aggregations (`#175`_, `#176`_, contributed by `@mesejo`_)
+* Added ``DataFrame.es_query()`` to allow modifying ES queries directly (`#156`_)
+* Added ``eland.__version__`` (`#153`_, contributed by `@mesejo`_)
+* Removed support for Python 3.5 (`#150`_)
+* Removed ``eland.Client()`` interface, use
+  ``elasticsearch.Elasticsearch()`` client instead (`#166`_)
+* Removed all private objects from top-level ``eland`` namespace (`#170`_)
+* Removed ``geo_points`` from ``pandas_to_eland()`` in favor of ``es_type_overrides`` (`#181`_)
+* Fixed ``inference_config`` being required on ML models for ES >=7.8 (`#174`_)
+* Fixed unpacking for ``DataFrame.aggregate("median")`` (`#161`_)
+* Changed ML model serialization to be slightly smaller (`#159`_)
+* Changed minimum ``elasticsearch`` Python library version to v7.6.0 (`#181`_)
+
+ .. _@mesejo: https://github.com/mesejo
+ .. _#141: https://github.com/elastic/eland/pull/141
+ .. _#150: https://github.com/elastic/eland/pull/150
+ .. _#153: https://github.com/elastic/eland/pull/153
+ .. _#154: https://github.com/elastic/eland/pull/154
+ .. _#156: https://github.com/elastic/eland/pull/156
+ .. _#159: https://github.com/elastic/eland/pull/159
+ .. _#161: https://github.com/elastic/eland/pull/161
+ .. _#166: https://github.com/elastic/eland/pull/166
+ .. _#170: https://github.com/elastic/eland/pull/170
+ .. _#174: https://github.com/elastic/eland/pull/174
+ .. _#175: https://github.com/elastic/eland/pull/175
+ .. _#176: https://github.com/elastic/eland/pull/176
+ .. _#181: https://github.com/elastic/eland/pull/181
+
 7.6.0a4 (2020-03-23)
 --------------------
 
diff --git a/eland/_version.py b/eland/_version.py
index f8f5236..6d9f057 100644
--- a/eland/_version.py
+++ b/eland/_version.py
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
 __title__ = "eland"
 __description__ = "Python elasticsearch client to analyse, explore and manipulate data that resides in elasticsearch."
 __url__ = "https://github.com/elastic/eland"
-__version__ = "7.6.0a4"
+__version__ = "7.6.0a5"
 __author__ = "Steve Dodson"
 __author_email__ = "steve.dodson@elastic.co"
 __maintainer__ = "Seth Michael Larson"
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index c850270..dbf84a2 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -39,8 +39,6 @@ CLASSIFIERS = [
 ]
 
 LONG_DESCRIPTION = """
-# What is it?
-
 eland is a Elasticsearch client Python package to analyse, explore and manipulate data that resides in Elasticsearch.
 Where possible the package uses existing Python APIs and data structures to make it easy to switch between numpy,
 pandas, scikit-learn to their Elasticsearch powered equivalents. In general, the data resides in Elasticsearch and
@@ -187,6 +185,6 @@ setup(
     classifiers=CLASSIFIERS,
     keywords="elastic eland pandas python",
     packages=find_packages(include=["eland", "eland.*"]),
-    install_requires=["elasticsearch>=7.0.5, <8", "pandas>=1", "matplotlib"],
+    install_requires=["elasticsearch>=7.6, <8", "pandas>=1", "matplotlib"],
     python_requires=">=3.6",
 )