diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 022a6bf65..19d5640ea 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,16 +1,10 @@
-# Release 0.23.0-dev
+# Release 0.23.0
 
 ### New features since last release
 
 * Add support for the operations`IsingXX`, `IsingYY`, `IsingZZ`
   [(#209)](https://github.com/PennyLaneAI/pennylane-qiskit/pull/209)
 
-### Breaking changes
-
-### Improvements
-
-### Documentation
-
 ### Bug fixes
 
 * Fix runtime sampler due to changes on Qiskit side.
diff --git a/pennylane_qiskit/_version.py b/pennylane_qiskit/_version.py
index 0b414cac0..548773b90 100644
--- a/pennylane_qiskit/_version.py
+++ b/pennylane_qiskit/_version.py
@@ -16,4 +16,4 @@
    Version number (major.minor.patch[-label])
 """
 
-__version__ = "0.23.0-dev"
+__version__ = "0.23.0"