From 51cd945b979e63a2f612c87f99b4d090ad792a0e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "cachekit-release-bot[bot]"
 <247960786+cachekit-release-bot[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2026 08:37:12 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] chore(main): release 0.5.0

---
 .release-please-manifest.json | 2 +-
 CHANGELOG.md                  | 7 +++++++
 pyproject.toml                | 2 +-
 rust/Cargo.toml               | 2 +-
 src/cachekit/__init__.py      | 2 +-
 5 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.release-please-manifest.json b/.release-please-manifest.json
index 218393f..f1c1e58 100644
--- a/.release-please-manifest.json
+++ b/.release-please-manifest.json
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 {
-  ".": "0.4.1"
+  ".": "0.5.0"
 }
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 9fe4fc6..c893c88 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,12 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## [0.5.0](https://github.com/cachekit-io/cachekit-py/compare/v0.4.1...v0.5.0) (2026-03-27)
+
+
+### Features
+
+* add Memcached backend with pymemcache HashClient ([#67](https://github.com/cachekit-io/cachekit-py/issues/67)) ([a06e88a](https://github.com/cachekit-io/cachekit-py/commit/a06e88ad6fdd38b7e5ec11b93572da94e623a59d))
+
 ## [0.4.1](https://github.com/cachekit-io/cachekit-py/compare/v0.4.0...v0.4.1) (2026-03-23)
 
 
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 237720b..9789dcb 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ build-backend = "maturin"
 
 [project]
 name = "cachekit"
-version = "0.4.1"
+version = "0.5.0"
 description = "Production-ready Redis caching for Python with intelligent reliability features and Rust-powered performance"
 readme = "README.md"
 license = {text = "MIT"}
diff --git a/rust/Cargo.toml b/rust/Cargo.toml
index ef8200e..eb6c2f3 100644
--- a/rust/Cargo.toml
+++ b/rust/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "cachekit-rs"
-version = "0.4.1"
+version = "0.5.0"
 edition = "2021"
 authors = ["cachekit Contributors"]
 description = "High-performance storage engine for caching with compression and encryption"
diff --git a/src/cachekit/__init__.py b/src/cachekit/__init__.py
index 47776fd..3c17d79 100644
--- a/src/cachekit/__init__.py
+++ b/src/cachekit/__init__.py
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ def custom_function():
     ```
 """
 
-__version__ = "0.4.1"
+__version__ = "0.5.0"
 
 from typing import Any, Callable, TypeVar