diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
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+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Package: bigrquery
 Title: An Interface to Google's 'BigQuery' 'API'
-Version: 1.5.0.9000
+Version: 1.5.1
 Authors@R: c(
     person("Hadley", "Wickham", , "hadley@posit.co", role = c("aut", "cre"),
            comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0003-4757-117X")),
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
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+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# bigrquery (development version)
+# bigrquery 1.5.1
 
 * Forward compatibility with upcoming dbplyr release (#601).