diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index c5787ceae..2a12c7a4c 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Package: vctrs
 Title: Vector Helpers
-Version: 0.5.0.9000
+Version: 0.5.1
 Authors@R: 
     c(person(given = "Hadley",
              family = "Wickham",
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 85335a20e..2a43c5335 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# vctrs (development version)
+# vctrs 0.5.1
 
 * Fix for CRAN checks.
 
diff --git a/cran-comments.md b/cran-comments.md
index 56688d3a0..3585fd769 100644
--- a/cran-comments.md
+++ b/cran-comments.md
@@ -1,11 +1 @@
-## R CMD check results
-
-0 errors | 0 warnings | 0 notes
-
-
-## revdepcheck results
-
-We checked 175 reverse dependencies (171 from CRAN + 4 from Bioconductor), comparing R CMD check results across CRAN and dev versions of this package.
-
- * We saw 0 new problems
- * We failed to check 0 packages
+Fixes the failure with R-devel.
diff --git a/src/version.c b/src/version.c
index 41ae1263f..a8da097ff 100644
--- a/src/version.c
+++ b/src/version.c
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #define R_NO_REMAP
 #include <Rinternals.h>
 
-const char* vctrs_version = "0.5.0.9000";
+const char* vctrs_version = "0.5.1";
 
 /**
  * This file records the expected package version in the shared