diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 76455c04f9..4fb2fc8b00 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+2022-03-01 - V5.1.0
+  * Handle image and line regions in output formats ALTO, hOCR and text.
+  * New parameter curl_timeout for curl_easy_setop.
+  * Build fixes and improvements.
+  * Catch nullptr in PageIterator::Orientation to improve robustness.
+  * Remove unused code.
+
 2022-01-06 - V5.0.1
   * Add SPDX-License-Identifier to public include files.
   * Support redirections when running OCR on a URL.
diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index 6b244dcd69..831446cbd2 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-5.0.1
+5.1.0
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 927515d012..c4ebc96ee9 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([foreign subdir-objects nostdinc])
 # Define date of package, etc. Could be useful in auto-generated
 # documentation.
 PACKAGE_YEAR=2022
-PACKAGE_DATE="01/07"
+PACKAGE_DATE="03/01"
 
 abs_top_srcdir=`AS_DIRNAME([$0])`