diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index f157cf84..2d1696a1 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -2,6 +2,42 @@
 
 All notable changes to GPULlama3.java will be documented in this file.
 
+## [1.0.0] - 2026-07-28
+
+### Features
+
+- Auto-detect TornadoVM backend in llama-tornado / llamaTornado ([#137](https://github.com/beehive-lab/GPULlama3.java/pull/137))
+- Add TornadoVM CUDA backend support and tensor-core (MMA) accelerated batch prefill (FP16 & Q8_0, Llama & Qwen3) ([#127](https://github.com/beehive-lab/GPULlama3.java/pull/127))
+- Add prefill-decode and batch-prefill-decode for Qwen3 (FP16 and Q8_0) ([#122](https://github.com/beehive-lab/GPULlama3.java/pull/122))
+- Refactor GPU backend planner ([#117](https://github.com/beehive-lab/GPULlama3.java/pull/117))
+- Several fixes and improvements for CI ([#115](https://github.com/beehive-lab/GPULlama3.java/pull/115))
+- Ci/metrics history ([#114](https://github.com/beehive-lab/GPULlama3.java/pull/114))
+- Improve collection of performance/throughput metrics ([#113](https://github.com/beehive-lab/GPULlama3.java/pull/113))
+- Update TornadoVM dependency for jdk21 and fixed suffix regarding future releases ([#111](https://github.com/beehive-lab/GPULlama3.java/pull/111))
+- Add Prefill–Decode Separation with Batched Prompt Ingestion and Logits Skipping  ([#102](https://github.com/beehive-lab/GPULlama3.java/pull/102))
+
+### Other Changes
+
+- Fix IllegalArgumentException (negative ArrayList capacity) on prompts longer than max-tokens ([#128](https://github.com/beehive-lab/GPULlama3.java/pull/128))
+- On-device greedy sampling (-Dllama.deviceSample): GPU argmax, keep logits device-side (~500x less D2H) ([#134](https://github.com/beehive-lab/GPULlama3.java/pull/134))
+- Fix Qwen3 FP16 garbage on CUDA backend: cross-workgroup race in RMS-norm reduction ([#132](https://github.com/beehive-lab/GPULlama3.java/pull/132))
+- Docs: modernize README — position as JVM-native LLM inference & serving engine ([#136](https://github.com/beehive-lab/GPULlama3.java/pull/136))
+- Add llama-bench-style benchmark: llama-tornado --bench (pp/tg/pg matrix, avg±stddev t/s, md/csv/json) ([#133](https://github.com/beehive-lab/GPULlama3.java/pull/133))
+- OpenAI-compatible server (llama-tornado --server): /v1/chat/completions + /v1/completions, streaming, zero-dep ([#135](https://github.com/beehive-lab/GPULlama3.java/pull/135))
+- Release 0.5.0 ([#125](https://github.com/beehive-lab/GPULlama3.java/pull/125))
+- Qwen3 decode: split-KV attention + backend-aware warp GEMV (FP16 & Q8_0) ([#123](https://github.com/beehive-lab/GPULlama3.java/pull/123))
+- Introduce tool calling support ([#116](https://github.com/beehive-lab/GPULlama3.java/pull/116))
+- Cleanup of presentation materials ([#121](https://github.com/beehive-lab/GPULlama3.java/pull/121))
+- Add Q4_K/Q5_K/Q6_K GPU support via Q8_0 dequantization ([#108](https://github.com/beehive-lab/GPULlama3.java/pull/108))
+- llama-tornado script curation ([#112](https://github.com/beehive-lab/GPULlama3.java/pull/112))
+- Add Apple Metal backend support ([#103](https://github.com/beehive-lab/GPULlama3.java/pull/103))
+- Add DevoxxGreece presentation material ([#109](https://github.com/beehive-lab/GPULlama3.java/pull/109))
+-   Devstral 2 support (Mistral 3 architecture, Tekken tokenizer, YaRN … ([#107](https://github.com/beehive-lab/GPULlama3.java/pull/107))
+-   Add llamaTornado Java 25 single-file launcher with Metal backend support   ([#105](https://github.com/beehive-lab/GPULlama3.java/pull/105))
+- [refactor] Simplify and unify the TornadoVM layer planner infrastructure ([#101](https://github.com/beehive-lab/GPULlama3.java/pull/101))
+- AddCI Actions for Quarkus-LangChain4j integration ([#89](https://github.com/beehive-lab/GPULlama3.java/pull/89))
+- Simplify and generalize TornadoVM version across JDK profiles in pom.xml ([#99](https://github.com/beehive-lab/GPULlama3.java/pull/99))
+
 ## [0.4.0] - 2026-02-25
 
 ### Other Changes
diff --git a/CITATION.cff b/CITATION.cff
index da2cbe6b..3e7acdd2 100644
--- a/CITATION.cff
+++ b/CITATION.cff
@@ -15,6 +15,6 @@ authors:
   given-names: "Christos"
 title: "GPULlama3.java"
 license: MIT License
-version: 0.4.0
-date-released: 2026-02-25
+version: 1.0.0
+date-released: 2026-07-28
 url: "https://github.com/beehive-lab/GPULlama3.java"
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 310f34f6..0bd9d3d2 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ GPULlama3ChatModel model = GPULlama3ChatModel.builder()
 <dependency>
     <groupId>io.github.beehive-lab</groupId>
     <artifactId>gpu-llama3</artifactId>
-    <version>0.4.0</version>
+    <version>1.0.0</version>
 </dependency>
 
 <!-- JDK 25 → use version 0.4.0-jdk25 -->
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 10361b06..16936920 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 
         <properties>
             <!-- CI-friendly version: resolved by flatten-maven-plugin at build time -->
-            <revision>0.4.0</revision>
+            <revision>1.0.0</revision>
             <tornadovm.base.version>5.0.0</tornadovm.base.version>
             <jdk.version.suffix>-jdk21</jdk.version.suffix>
             <!-- CUDA backend is only available after 5.0.0 TornadoVM version -->