diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 4e1dac536..9ca95bfb4 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,19 @@
 # Qiita changelog
 
+Version 2023.05
+---------------
+
+**_NOTE:_** Human-associated shotgun samples have been determined to leak human
+DNA, even with state of the art human read filtering mechanisms in place. To
+address this critical privacy concern as soon as possible, we are limiting
+per-sample FASTQ downloads to admins and study owners for human-associated
+shotgun samples, and in parallel we are (a) working with EBI-ENA to address
+submitted data and (b) updating Qiita to only allow download of sequence data
+that positively matches to a microbial specific database.
+
+* Added "Artifact.has_human" to check if an artifact has samples that can potentially contain human sequences.
+
+
 Version 2023.03
 ---------------
 
diff --git a/qiita_core/__init__.py b/qiita_core/__init__.py
index 0ab412bfc..80358e364 100644
--- a/qiita_core/__init__.py
+++ b/qiita_core/__init__.py
@@ -6,4 +6,4 @@
 # The full license is in the file LICENSE, distributed with this software.
 # -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-__version__ = "2023.03"
+__version__ = "2023.05"
diff --git a/qiita_db/__init__.py b/qiita_db/__init__.py
index bbbc9f9e3..a501ab288 100644
--- a/qiita_db/__init__.py
+++ b/qiita_db/__init__.py
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
 from . import user
 from . import processing_job
 
-__version__ = "2023.03"
+__version__ = "2023.05"
 
 __all__ = ["analysis", "artifact",  "archive", "base", "commands",
            "environment_manager", "exceptions", "investigation", "logger",
diff --git a/qiita_pet/__init__.py b/qiita_pet/__init__.py
index 0ab412bfc..80358e364 100644
--- a/qiita_pet/__init__.py
+++ b/qiita_pet/__init__.py
@@ -6,4 +6,4 @@
 # The full license is in the file LICENSE, distributed with this software.
 # -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-__version__ = "2023.03"
+__version__ = "2023.05"
diff --git a/qiita_pet/handlers/api_proxy/__init__.py b/qiita_pet/handlers/api_proxy/__init__.py
index 765847ffc..6b874fda9 100644
--- a/qiita_pet/handlers/api_proxy/__init__.py
+++ b/qiita_pet/handlers/api_proxy/__init__.py
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 from .user import (user_jobs_get_req)
 from .util import check_access, check_fp
 
-__version__ = "2023.03"
+__version__ = "2023.05"
 
 __all__ = ['prep_template_summary_get_req', 'data_types_get_req',
            'study_get_req', 'sample_template_filepaths_get_req',
diff --git a/qiita_ware/__init__.py b/qiita_ware/__init__.py
index 0ab412bfc..80358e364 100644
--- a/qiita_ware/__init__.py
+++ b/qiita_ware/__init__.py
@@ -6,4 +6,4 @@
 # The full license is in the file LICENSE, distributed with this software.
 # -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-__version__ = "2023.03"
+__version__ = "2023.05"
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 961edf362..e97f7c530 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 from setuptools import setup
 from glob import glob
 
-__version__ = "2023.03"
+__version__ = "2023.05"
 
 
 classes = """