diff --git a/beets/__init__.py b/beets/__init__.py
index e3e5fdf83..15e5f1395 100644
--- a/beets/__init__.py
+++ b/beets/__init__.py
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ from __future__ import division, absolute_import, print_function
 import confuse
 from sys import stderr
 
-__version__ = u'1.5.0'
+__version__ = u'1.5.1'
 __author__ = u'Adrian Sampson <adrian@radbox.org>'
 
 
diff --git a/docs/changelog.rst b/docs/changelog.rst
index 4d37e42b9..701d7d7e3 100644
--- a/docs/changelog.rst
+++ b/docs/changelog.rst
@@ -1,6 +1,12 @@
 Changelog
 =========
 
+1.5.1 (in development)
+----------------------
+
+Changelog goes here!
+
+
 1.5.0 (August 19, 2021)
 -----------------------
 
diff --git a/docs/conf.py b/docs/conf.py
index f77838e81..5ae600c1a 100644
--- a/docs/conf.py
+++ b/docs/conf.py
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ project = u'beets'
 copyright = u'2016, Adrian Sampson'
 
 version = '1.5'
-release = '1.5.0'
+release = '1.5.1'
 
 pygments_style = 'sphinx'
 
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index ca0dc819d..a3bd53de1 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ if 'sdist' in sys.argv:
 
 setup(
     name='beets',
-    version='1.5.0',
+    version='1.5.1',
     description='music tagger and library organizer',
     author='Adrian Sampson',
     author_email='adrian@radbox.org',