diff --git a/packages/camera/camera_android_camerax/CHANGELOG.md b/packages/camera/camera_android_camerax/CHANGELOG.md
index 25b5679d86..5b030f315f 100644
--- a/packages/camera/camera_android_camerax/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/packages/camera/camera_android_camerax/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,27 +1,9 @@
-## NEXT
+## 0.5.0
 
-* Updates minimum Flutter version to 3.3.
-* Creates camera_android_camerax plugin for development.
-* Adds CameraInfo class and removes unnecessary code from plugin.
-* Adds CameraSelector class.
-* Adds ProcessCameraProvider class.
-* Bump CameraX version to 1.3.0-alpha02.
-* Adds Camera and UseCase classes, along with methods for binding UseCases to a lifecycle with the ProcessCameraProvider.
-* Bump CameraX version to 1.3.0-alpha03 and Kotlin version to 1.8.0.
-* Changes instance manager to allow the separate creation of identical objects.
-* Adds Preview and Surface classes, along with other methods needed to implement camera preview.
-* Adds implementation of availableCameras().
-* Implements camera preview, createCamera, initializeCamera, onCameraError, onDeviceOrientationChanged, and onCameraInitialized.
-* Adds integration test to plugin.
-* Bump CameraX version to 1.3.0-alpha04.
-* Fixes instance manager hot restart behavior and fixes Java casting issue.
-* Implements image capture.
-* Fixes cast of CameraInfo to fix integration test failure.
-* Updates internal Java InstanceManager to only stop finalization callbacks when stopped.
-* Implements image streaming.
-* Provides LifecycleOwner implementation for Activities that use the plugin that do not implement it themselves.
-* Implements retrieval of camera information.
-* Updates README.md with plugin overview and adds contribution guide to CONTRIBUTING.md.
-* Implements video capture.
-* Implements onCameraClosing callback method for indicating the camera is closing and bumps CameraX version to 1.3.0-alpha05.
+* Initial release of this `camera` implementation that supports:
+    * Image capture
+    * Video recording
+    * Displaying a live camera preview
+    * Image streaming
 
+  See [`README.md`](README.md) for more details on the limitations of this implementation.
diff --git a/packages/camera/camera_android_camerax/pubspec.yaml b/packages/camera/camera_android_camerax/pubspec.yaml
index bb140f5a41..d25a18b40e 100644
--- a/packages/camera/camera_android_camerax/pubspec.yaml
+++ b/packages/camera/camera_android_camerax/pubspec.yaml
@@ -2,11 +2,12 @@ name: camera_android_camerax
 description: Android implementation of the camera plugin using the CameraX library.
 repository: https://github.com/flutter/packages/tree/main/packages/camera/camera_android_camerax
 issue_tracker: https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3A%22p%3A+camera%22
-publish_to: 'none'
+
+version: 0.5.0
 
 environment:
-  sdk: ">=2.18.0 <4.0.0"
-  flutter: ">=3.3.0"
+  sdk: ">=2.19.0 <4.0.0"
+  flutter: ">=3.7.0"
 
 flutter:
   plugin:
diff --git a/script/configs/exclude_all_packages_app.yaml b/script/configs/exclude_all_packages_app.yaml
index ddc9df2b71..60e7c7486f 100644
--- a/script/configs/exclude_all_packages_app.yaml
+++ b/script/configs/exclude_all_packages_app.yaml
@@ -6,5 +6,15 @@
 # updating multiple packages for a breaking change in a common dependency in
 # cases where using a relaxed version constraint isn't possible.
 
+# An application cannot depend directly on multiple federated implementations
+# of the same plugin for the same platform, which means the app cannot
+# directly depend on both camera_android and camera_android_androidx.
+# Since camera_android is endorsed, it will be included transitively
+# already, so exclude it from the direct dependency list to allow including
+# camera_android_androidx to ensure that they don't conflict at build time
+# (if they did, it would be impossible to use camera_android_androidx while
+# camera_android is endorsed).
+- camera_android
+
 # This is a permament entry, as it should never be a direct app dependency.
 - plugin_platform_interface