diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 9a95c4948..71f59ba83 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -39,6 +39,17 @@ Bottom level categories:
 
 ## Unreleased
 
+## 0.19.5
+
+This release only releases `wgpu-hal` 0.19.5, which contains an important fix
+for DX12.
+
+### Bug Fixes
+
+#### DX12
+
+- Do not feed `&""` to `D3DCompile`, by @workingjubilee in [#5812](https://github.com/gfx-rs/wgpu/issues/5812), backported by @Elabajaba in [#5833](https://github.com/gfx-rs/wgpu/pull/5833).
+
 ## v0.19.4 (2024-04-17)
 
 ### Bug Fixes
diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 57d1c30f0..2789264b0 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -4044,7 +4044,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "wgpu-hal"
-version = "0.19.4"
+version = "0.19.5"
 dependencies = [
  "android_system_properties",
  "arrayvec 0.7.4",
diff --git a/wgpu-hal/Cargo.toml b/wgpu-hal/Cargo.toml
index d48fd9c60..77b1bc7bc 100644
--- a/wgpu-hal/Cargo.toml
+++ b/wgpu-hal/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "wgpu-hal"
-version = "0.19.4"
+version = "0.19.5"
 authors = ["gfx-rs developers"]
 edition = "2021"
 description = "WebGPU hardware abstraction layer"