diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 3c45f29664..3bb3e6b209 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ Pylint's ChangeLog
 What's New in Pylint 2.5.1?
 ===========================
 
-Release date: TBA
+Release date: 2020-05-05
 
 * Fix a crash in `method-hidden` lookup for unknown base classes
 
diff --git a/pylint/__pkginfo__.py b/pylint/__pkginfo__.py
index 9cc235a55e..acc79b69ec 100644
--- a/pylint/__pkginfo__.py
+++ b/pylint/__pkginfo__.py
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
 from os.path import join
 
 # For an official release, use dev_version = None
-numversion = (2, 5, 0)
+numversion = (2, 5, 1)
 dev_version = None
 
 version = ".".join(str(num) for num in numversion)