diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index e7a6b9e8..511b1cc0 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Type: Package
 Package: mlr3mbo
 Title: Flexible Bayesian Optimization
-Version: 0.2.4.9000
+Version: 0.2.5
 Authors@R: c(
     person("Lennart", "Schneider", , "lennart.sch@web.de", role = c("cre", "aut"),
            comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0003-4152-5308")),
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ Imports:
     checkmate (>= 2.0.0),
     data.table,
     lgr (>= 0.3.4),
-    mlr3 (>= 0.14.0),
+    mlr3 (>= 0.21.0),
     mlr3misc (>= 0.11.0),
     mlr3tuning (>= 1.0.0),
     paradox (>= 1.0.0),
@@ -64,8 +64,6 @@ Suggests:
     rpart,
     stringi,
     testthat (>= 3.0.0)
-Remotes:
-    mlr-org/mlr3
 ByteCompile: no
 Encoding: UTF-8
 Config/testthat/edition: 3
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index cb1beef6..a96430fa 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,4 +1,9 @@
-# mlr3mbo (development version)
+# mlr3mbo 0.2.5
+
+* docs: Move vignette to mlr3book.
+* feat: Add `AcqFunctionMulti` that can wrap multiple acquisition functions resulting in a multi-objective acquisition function problem.
+* feat: Support callbacks in `AcqOptimizer`.
+* feat: Allow `AcqFunctionEI` to be adjusted by epsilon to strengthen exploration.
 
 # mlr3mbo 0.2.4