diff --git a/docs/release-notes.md b/docs/release-notes.md
index b078cb1e7..9096a9f3f 100644
--- a/docs/release-notes.md
+++ b/docs/release-notes.md
@@ -1,11 +1,15 @@
 ## Next
 
+## 0.5.1
+
 * Add section about <a href="https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/help-fastapi/" target="_blank">helping and getting help with **FastAPI**</a>.
 
 * Add note about <a href="https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/tutorial/path-params/#order-matters" target="_blank">path operations order in docs</a>.
 
 * Update <a href="https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/tutorial/handling-errors/" target="_blank">section about error handling</a> with more information and make relation with Starlette error handling utilities more explicit. PR <a href="https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi/pull/41" target="_blank">#41</a>.
 
+* Add <a href="" target="_blank">Development - Contributing section to the docs</a>. PR <a href="https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi/pull/42" target="_blank">#42</a>.
+
 ## 0.5.0
 
 * Add new `HTTPException` with support for custom headers. With new documentation for handling errors at: <a href="https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/tutorial/handling-errors/" target="_blank">https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/tutorial/handling-errors/</a>. PR <a href="https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi/pull/35" target="_blank">#35</a>.
diff --git a/fastapi/__init__.py b/fastapi/__init__.py
index 7a03ddc28..7377eed3d 100644
--- a/fastapi/__init__.py
+++ b/fastapi/__init__.py
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 """FastAPI framework, high performance, easy to learn, fast to code, ready for production"""
 
-__version__ = "0.5.0"
+__version__ = "0.5.1"
 
 from .applications import FastAPI
 from .routing import APIRouter