diff --git a/HISTORY.md b/HISTORY.md
index a1683a8e4c..399e6d1b85 100644
--- a/HISTORY.md
+++ b/HISTORY.md
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 # mlpack changelog
 
-## mlpack ?.?.?
+## mlpack 4.6.0
 
-_????-??-??_
+_2025-04-02_
 
  * Fix command-line duplicate output bug when loading matrices for some bindings
    (#3838).
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 0ee45b1852..f50e994318 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 <p align="center">
   <em>
     Download:
-    <a href="https://www.mlpack.org/files/mlpack-4.5.1.tar.gz">current stable version (4.5.1)</a>
+    <a href="https://www.mlpack.org/files/mlpack-4.6.0.tar.gz">current stable version (4.6.0)</a>
   </em>
 </p>
 
diff --git a/doc/examples/sample-ml-app/README.txt b/doc/examples/sample-ml-app/README.txt
index 4291650574..233db4ba0e 100644
--- a/doc/examples/sample-ml-app/README.txt
+++ b/doc/examples/sample-ml-app/README.txt
@@ -21,15 +21,15 @@ and library files into C:\mlpack\.
  * ensmallen: https://ensmallen.org/files/ensmallen-2.19.0.tar.gz
    Download the .tar.gz, and extract it into C:\mlpack\ensmallen-2.19.0\
 
-Now, install mlpack into C:\mlpack\mlpack-4.5.1\.  If you downloaded the mlpack
+Now, install mlpack into C:\mlpack\mlpack-4.6.0\.  If you downloaded the mlpack
 source, you can either use the Windows build guide (see
 doc/user/build_windows.md) to build and install, or, since mlpack is
-header-only, copy the src/ directory to C:\mlpack\mlpack-4.5.1\ and rename it
-"include" (so there will now be a directory C:\mlpack\mlpack-4.5.1\include\,
+header-only, copy the src/ directory to C:\mlpack\mlpack-4.6.0\ and rename it
+"include" (so there will now be a directory C:\mlpack\mlpack-4.6.0\include\,
 which contains only base.hpp and the mlpack/ subdirectory).
 
 Alternately, if you downloaded the Windows MSI installer, you can install to
-C:\mlpack\mlpack-4.5.1\.
+C:\mlpack\mlpack-4.6.0\.
 
 Once all of that setup is done, the example should compile as-is.
 
diff --git a/doc/examples/sample-ml-app/sample-ml-app/sample-ml-app.vcxproj b/doc/examples/sample-ml-app/sample-ml-app/sample-ml-app.vcxproj
index 9dcb628cfd..b614910791 100644
--- a/doc/examples/sample-ml-app/sample-ml-app/sample-ml-app.vcxproj
+++ b/doc/examples/sample-ml-app/sample-ml-app/sample-ml-app.vcxproj
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@
       <SDLCheck>true</SDLCheck>
       <PreprocessorDefinitions>_DEBUG;_CONSOLE;%(PreprocessorDefinitions)</PreprocessorDefinitions>
       <ConformanceMode>Default</ConformanceMode>
-      <AdditionalIncludeDirectories>C:\mlpack\armadillo-11.4.1\include;C:\mlpack\mlpack-4.5.1\include\;C:\mlpack\cereal-1.3.2\include;C:\mlpack\ensmallen-2.19.0\include\%(AdditionalIncludeDirectories)</AdditionalIncludeDirectories>
+      <AdditionalIncludeDirectories>C:\mlpack\armadillo-11.4.1\include;C:\mlpack\mlpack-4.6.0\include\;C:\mlpack\cereal-1.3.2\include;C:\mlpack\ensmallen-2.19.0\include\%(AdditionalIncludeDirectories)</AdditionalIncludeDirectories>
       <LanguageStandard>stdcpp17</LanguageStandard>
       <OpenMPSupport>false</OpenMPSupport>
       <AdditionalOptions>%(AdditionalOptions)</AdditionalOptions>
diff --git a/doc/user/deploy_windows.md b/doc/user/deploy_windows.md
index de9e08d5ed..5cbefe1e0c 100644
--- a/doc/user/deploy_windows.md
+++ b/doc/user/deploy_windows.md
@@ -27,13 +27,13 @@ dependencies in Release Mode).
 - Under C/C++ > General > Additional Include Directories add:
 ```
  - C:\mlpack\armadillo-9.800.3\include
- - C:\mlpack\mlpack-4.5.1\src
+ - C:\mlpack\mlpack-4.6.0\src
  - C:\mlpack\ensmallen-2.19.0\include
  - C:\mlpack\cereal-3.1.2\include
 ```
 - Under Build Events > Post-Build Event > Command Line add:
 ```
- - xcopy /y "C:\mlpack\mlpack-4.5.1\packages\OpenBLAS.0.2.14.1\lib\native\bin\x64\*.dll" $(OutDir)
+ - xcopy /y "C:\mlpack\mlpack-4.6.0\packages\OpenBLAS.0.2.14.1\lib\native\bin\x64\*.dll" $(OutDir)
 ```
 
 *Note*: recent versions of Visual Studio set "Conformance Mode" enabled by
diff --git a/src/mlpack/core/util/version.hpp b/src/mlpack/core/util/version.hpp
index 207101fc18..4db0b9d27d 100644
--- a/src/mlpack/core/util/version.hpp
+++ b/src/mlpack/core/util/version.hpp
@@ -17,8 +17,8 @@
 // The version of mlpack.  If this is a git repository, this will be a version
 // with higher number than the most recent release.
 #define MLPACK_VERSION_MAJOR 4
-#define MLPACK_VERSION_MINOR 5
-#define MLPACK_VERSION_PATCH 2
+#define MLPACK_VERSION_MINOR 6
+#define MLPACK_VERSION_PATCH 0
 
 // The name of the version (for use by --version).
 namespace mlpack {