diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index e8351fc91..863e8af56 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -4,7 +4,11 @@ Notable changes to Ascent are documented in this file. This changelog started on
 The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/),
 and this project aspires to adhere to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html).
 
-## Unreleased
+## [0.5.1] - Released 2020-01-31
+
+### Added
+- Added support to render multiple topologies in the same scene.
+- Added a Data Object construct to the main Ascent runtime to easily manage transformations between in-memory mesh representations. 
 
 ### Fixed
 - Issue where cycle was not properly propagated when converting mfem data.
@@ -35,7 +39,8 @@ and this project aspires to adhere to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/s
 ### Fixed
 - Several minor bug fixes
 
-[Unreleased]: https://github.com/Alpine-DAV/ascent/compare/v0.5.0...HEAD
+[Unreleased]: https://github.com/Alpine-DAV/ascent/compare/v0.5.1...HEAD
+[0.5.1]: https://github.com/Alpine-DAV/ascent/compare/v0.5.0...v0.5.1
 [0.5.0]: https://github.com/Alpine-DAV/ascent/compare/v0.4.0...v0.5.0
 [0.4.0]: https://github.com/Alpine-DAV/ascent/compare/v0.3.0...v0.4.0
 
diff --git a/src/CMakeLists.txt b/src/CMakeLists.txt
index 60546b2bc..db52bd69f 100644
--- a/src/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/src/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ cmake_policy(SET CMP0048 NEW)
 # Ascent
 ################################
 
-project(ascent VERSION "0.5.0")
+project(ascent VERSION "0.5.1")
 
 ################################
 # Build Options
diff --git a/src/ascent/runtimes/flow_filters/ascent_runtime_relay_filters.cpp b/src/ascent/runtimes/flow_filters/ascent_runtime_relay_filters.cpp
index 78ad72660..bf12d882e 100644
--- a/src/ascent/runtimes/flow_filters/ascent_runtime_relay_filters.cpp
+++ b/src/ascent/runtimes/flow_filters/ascent_runtime_relay_filters.cpp
@@ -557,7 +557,7 @@ void mesh_blueprint_save(const Node &data,
         }
 
         root["protocol/name"]    =  file_protocol;
-        root["protocol/version"] = "0.5.0";
+        root["protocol/version"] = "0.5.1";
 
         root["number_of_files"]  = global_domains;
         // for now we will save one file per domain, so trees == files
diff --git a/src/docs/sphinx/Releases.rst b/src/docs/sphinx/Releases.rst
index 2ef6142a5..b2f8190e3 100644
--- a/src/docs/sphinx/Releases.rst
+++ b/src/docs/sphinx/Releases.rst
@@ -58,6 +58,27 @@ Source distributions for Ascent are hosted on github:
 https://github.com/Alpine-DAV/ascent/releases
 
 
+v0.5.1
+-------
+
+* `Source Tarball <https://github.com/Alpine-DAV/ascent/releases/download/v0.5.1/ascent-v0.5.1-src-wth-blt.tar.gz>`_
+
+Highlights
++++++++++++++
+
+(Extracted from Ascent's :download:`Changelog <../../../CHANGELOG.md>`)
+
+Added
+~~~~~~~~~
+
+* Added support to render multiple topologies in the same scene.
+* Added a Data Object construct to the main Ascent runtime to easily manage transformations between in-memory mesh representations. 
+
+Fixed
+~~~~~~~~~
+* Issue where cycle was not properly propagated when converting mfem data.
+* Cinema issue where zoom was applied additively each cycle to oblivion.
+* Cinema issue where cameras were not following the center of the data set.
 
 v0.5.0
 -------
diff --git a/src/docs/sphinx/conf.py b/src/docs/sphinx/conf.py
index e4cf5fd84..728c123c1 100644
--- a/src/docs/sphinx/conf.py
+++ b/src/docs/sphinx/conf.py
@@ -101,9 +101,9 @@
 # built documents.
 #
 # The short X.Y version.
-version = '0.5.0'
+version = '0.5.1'
 # The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags.
-release = '0.5.0'
+release = '0.5.1'
 
 # The language for content autogenerated by Sphinx. Refer to documentation
 # for a list of supported languages.