diff --git a/Changelog b/Changelog
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--- a/Changelog
+++ b/Changelog
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
- version 1.5.1 (not yet released)
-=================================
+ version 1.5.1 (tag v1.5.1rel)
+==============================
  * fix issue #908 by adding workaround for incorrect value returned
    by nc_inq_var_fill for netcdf-c < 4.5.1.
  * fix bug writing slice to unlimited dimension that is not the first
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 8e66c78b7..69096c3d2 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@
 ## News
 For details on the latest updates, see the [Changelog](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf4-python/blob/master/Changelog).
  
+04/30/2019: Version [1.5.1](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/netCDF4/1.5.1) released. Bugfixes, no new features.
+
 04/02/2019: Version [1.5.0.1](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/netCDF4/1.5.0.1) released. Binary wheels for macos x
 and linux rebuilt with netcdf-c 4.6.3 (instead of 4.4.1.1).   Added read-shared capability for faster reads
 of NETCDF3 files (mode='rs').
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index ea2bd51e6..6e0c94fef 100644
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+++ b/docs/netCDF4/index.html
@@ -4,14 +4,14 @@
   <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, minimum-scale=1" />
 
     <title>netCDF4 API documentation</title>
-    <meta name="description" content="Version 1.5.0.1
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 Introduction
 ============
 
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@@ -1280,7 +1280,7 @@ <h1>Index</h1>
 
   <header id="section-intro">
   <h1 class="title"><span class="name">netCDF4</span> module</h1>
-  <h2>Version 1.5.0.1</h2>
+  <h2>Version 1.5.1</h2>
 <hr />
 <h1>Introduction</h1>
 <p>netcdf4-python is a Python interface to the netCDF C library.</p>