diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index d6db37738..095effcd3 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ will write to your dconf store and cannot tell whether a configuration
 that it is about to be overwritten was from a previous Home Manager
 generation or from manual configuration.
 
-Home Manager targets [NixOS][] unstable and NixOS version 21.11 (the
+Home Manager targets [NixOS][] unstable and NixOS version 22.05 (the
 current stable version), it may or may not work on other Linux
 distributions and NixOS versions.
 
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ Home Manager is developed against `nixpkgs-unstable` branch, which
 often causes it to contain tweaks for changes/packages not yet
 released in stable NixOS. To avoid breaking users' configurations,
 Home Manager is released in branches corresponding to NixOS releases
-(e.g. `release-21.11`). These branches get fixes, but usually not new
+(e.g. `release-22.05`). These branches get fixes, but usually not new
 modules. If you need a module to be backported, then feel free to open
 an issue.
 
diff --git a/docs/installation.adoc b/docs/installation.adoc
index 5044c384b..f35fcf645 100644
--- a/docs/installation.adoc
+++ b/docs/installation.adoc
@@ -54,11 +54,11 @@ $ nix-channel --add https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager/archive/master
 $ nix-channel --update
 ----
 +
-and if you follow a Nixpkgs version 21.11 channel you can run
+and if you follow a Nixpkgs version 22.05 channel you can run
 +
 [source,console]
 ----
-$ nix-channel --add https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager/archive/release-21.11.tar.gz home-manager
+$ nix-channel --add https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager/archive/release-22.05.tar.gz home-manager
 $ nix-channel --update
 ----
 +
@@ -136,11 +136,11 @@ or an unstable channel, you can run
 # nix-channel --update
 ----
 
-and if you follow a Nixpkgs version 21.11 channel, you can run
+and if you follow a Nixpkgs version 22.05 channel, you can run
 
 [source,console]
 ----
-# nix-channel --add https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager/archive/release-21.11.tar.gz home-manager
+# nix-channel --add https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager/archive/release-22.05.tar.gz home-manager
 # nix-channel --update
 ----
 
@@ -247,11 +247,11 @@ or an unstable channel, you can run
 # nix-channel --update
 ----
 
-and if you follow a Nixpkgs version 21.11 channel, you can run
+and if you follow a Nixpkgs version 22.05 channel, you can run
 
 [source,console]
 ----
-# nix-channel --add https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager/archive/release-21.11.tar.gz home-manager
+# nix-channel --add https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager/archive/release-22.05.tar.gz home-manager
 # nix-channel --update
 ----
 
diff --git a/docs/nix-flakes.adoc b/docs/nix-flakes.adoc
index 2c1bb099c..a979552e3 100644
--- a/docs/nix-flakes.adoc
+++ b/docs/nix-flakes.adoc
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ Remove the line containing `home.stateVersion` in the example.
         # Update the state version as needed.
         # See the changelog here:
         # https://nix-community.github.io/home-manager/release-notes.html#sec-release-21.05
-        stateVersion = "21.11";
+        stateVersion = "22.05";
 
         # Optionally use extraSpecialArgs
         # to pass through arguments to home.nix
@@ -85,9 +85,9 @@ Remove the line containing `home.stateVersion` in the example.
 ====
 * The above example tracks the master branch of Home Manager
 and nixos-unstable branch of Nixpkgs.
-If you would like to use the `release-21.11` branch,
-change the `home-manager` input url to `github:nix-community/home-manager/release-21.11`
-and `nixpkgs` url to `github:NixOS/nixpkgs/nixos-21.11`.
+If you would like to use the `release-22.05` branch,
+change the `home-manager` input url to `github:nix-community/home-manager/release-22.05`
+and `nixpkgs` url to `github:NixOS/nixpkgs/nixos-22.05`.
 Make sure to also update to the `stateVersion` option accordingly.
 
 * The Home Manager library is exported by the flake under
diff --git a/docs/release-notes/rl-2205.adoc b/docs/release-notes/rl-2205.adoc
index 48482ddf5..f600640e4 100644
--- a/docs/release-notes/rl-2205.adoc
+++ b/docs/release-notes/rl-2205.adoc
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 [[sec-release-22.05]]
 == Release 22.05
 
-This is the current unstable branch and the information in this section is therefore not final.
+The 22.05 release branch became the stable branch in May, 2022.
 
 [[sec-release-22.05-highlights]]
 === Highlights