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 ## Unreleased
 
+## 1.0.0 - 2021-06-01
+
+### General
+
+- First stable release of the GDI specification. This release includes stable
+  requirements and recommendations for GDI repository composition and
+  versioning and Splunk distributions of OpenTelemetry configuration.
+
 ## 1.0.0-rc.3 - 2021-05-25
 
 ### General
diff --git a/specification/templates/CHANGELOG.md b/specification/templates/CHANGELOG.md
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 All notable changes to this repository are documented in this file.
 
-The format is based on the [Splunk GDI specification](https://github.com/signalfx/gdi-specification/blob/f70eda04ec15685f892edc4b8f05bed557d20206/docs/repository.md#required-files),
+The format is based on the [Splunk GDI specification](https://github.com/signalfx/gdi-specification/blob/v1.0.0/specification/repository.md),
 and this repository adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html).
 
 ## Unreleased