diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 0ae9248e..114a9a25 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Package: stringr
 Title: Simple, Consistent Wrappers for Common String Operations
-Version: 1.5.0.9000
+Version: 1.5.1
 Authors@R: c(
     person("Hadley", "Wickham", , "hadley@posit.co", role = c("aut", "cre", "cph")),
     person("Posit Software, PBC", role = c("cph", "fnd"))
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 7488fe70..ca660ff1 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# stringr (development version)
+# stringr 1.5.1
 
 * Some minor documentation improvements.