diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 4ed6043b3..bb38b22c6 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -28,9 +28,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "allocator-api2"
-version = "0.2.16"
+version = "0.2.18"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "0942ffc6dcaadf03badf6e6a2d0228460359d5e34b57ccdc720b7382dfbd5ec5"
+checksum = "5c6cb57a04249c6480766f7f7cef5467412af1490f8d1e243141daddada3264f"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "approx"
@@ -43,15 +43,15 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "autocfg"
-version = "1.2.0"
+version = "1.3.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "f1fdabc7756949593fe60f30ec81974b613357de856987752631dea1e3394c80"
+checksum = "0c4b4d0bd25bd0b74681c0ad21497610ce1b7c91b1022cd21c80c6fbdd9476b0"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "bitflags"
-version = "1.3.2"
+version = "2.6.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "bef38d45163c2f1dde094a7dfd33ccf595c92905c8f8f4fdc18d06fb1037718a"
+checksum = "b048fb63fd8b5923fc5aa7b340d8e156aec7ec02f0c78fa8a6ddc2613f6f71de"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "cfg-if"
@@ -80,15 +80,15 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "crossbeam-utils"
-version = "0.8.19"
+version = "0.8.20"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "248e3bacc7dc6baa3b21e405ee045c3047101a49145e7e9eca583ab4c2ca5345"
+checksum = "22ec99545bb0ed0ea7bb9b8e1e9122ea386ff8a48c0922e43f36d45ab09e0e80"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "either"
-version = "1.10.0"
+version = "1.13.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "11157ac094ffbdde99aa67b23417ebdd801842852b500e395a45a9c0aac03e4a"
+checksum = "60b1af1c220855b6ceac025d3f6ecdd2b7c4894bfe9cd9bda4fbb4bc7c0d4cf0"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "equivalent"
@@ -104,9 +104,9 @@ checksum = "0ce7134b9999ecaf8bcd65542e436736ef32ddca1b3e06094cb6ec5755203b80"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "getrandom"
-version = "0.2.12"
+version = "0.2.15"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "190092ea657667030ac6a35e305e62fc4dd69fd98ac98631e5d3a2b1575a12b5"
+checksum = "c4567c8db10ae91089c99af84c68c38da3ec2f087c3f82960bcdbf3656b6f4d7"
 dependencies = [
  "cfg-if",
  "libc",
@@ -195,9 +195,9 @@ checksum = "49f1f14873335454500d59611f1cf4a4b0f786f9ac11f4312a78e4cf2566695b"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "libc"
-version = "0.2.153"
+version = "0.2.155"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "9c198f91728a82281a64e1f4f9eeb25d82cb32a5de251c6bd1b5154d63a8e7bd"
+checksum = "97b3888a4aecf77e811145cadf6eef5901f4782c53886191b2f693f24761847c"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "libm"
@@ -207,9 +207,9 @@ checksum = "4ec2a862134d2a7d32d7983ddcdd1c4923530833c9f2ea1a44fc5fa473989058"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "lock_api"
-version = "0.4.11"
+version = "0.4.12"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "3c168f8615b12bc01f9c17e2eb0cc07dcae1940121185446edc3744920e8ef45"
+checksum = "07af8b9cdd281b7915f413fa73f29ebd5d55d0d3f0155584dade1ff18cea1b17"
 dependencies = [
  "autocfg",
  "scopeguard",
@@ -227,9 +227,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "memchr"
-version = "2.7.2"
+version = "2.7.4"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "6c8640c5d730cb13ebd907d8d04b52f55ac9a2eec55b440c8892f40d56c76c1d"
+checksum = "78ca9ab1a0babb1e7d5695e3530886289c18cf2f87ec19a575a0abdce112e3a3"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "memoffset"
@@ -280,9 +280,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "num-bigint"
-version = "0.4.5"
+version = "0.4.6"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "c165a9ab64cf766f73521c0dd2cfdff64f488b8f0b3e621face3462d3db536d7"
+checksum = "a5e44f723f1133c9deac646763579fdb3ac745e418f2a7af9cd0c431da1f20b9"
 dependencies = [
  "num-integer",
  "num-traits",
@@ -359,9 +359,9 @@ checksum = "3fdb12b2476b595f9358c5161aa467c2438859caa136dec86c26fdd2efe17b92"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "parking_lot"
-version = "0.12.1"
+version = "0.12.3"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "3742b2c103b9f06bc9fff0a37ff4912935851bee6d36f3c02bcc755bcfec228f"
+checksum = "f1bf18183cf54e8d6059647fc3063646a1801cf30896933ec2311622cc4b9a27"
 dependencies = [
  "lock_api",
  "parking_lot_core",
@@ -369,9 +369,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "parking_lot_core"
-version = "0.9.9"
+version = "0.9.10"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "4c42a9226546d68acdd9c0a280d17ce19bfe27a46bf68784e4066115788d008e"
+checksum = "1e401f977ab385c9e4e3ab30627d6f26d00e2c73eef317493c4ec6d468726cf8"
 dependencies = [
  "cfg-if",
  "libc",
@@ -415,9 +415,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "proc-macro2"
-version = "1.0.79"
+version = "1.0.86"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "e835ff2298f5721608eb1a980ecaee1aef2c132bf95ecc026a11b7bf3c01c02e"
+checksum = "5e719e8df665df0d1c8fbfd238015744736151d4445ec0836b8e628aae103b77"
 dependencies = [
  "unicode-ident",
 ]
@@ -500,9 +500,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "quote"
-version = "1.0.35"
+version = "1.0.36"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "291ec9ab5efd934aaf503a6466c5d5251535d108ee747472c3977cc5acc868ef"
+checksum = "0fa76aaf39101c457836aec0ce2316dbdc3ab723cdda1c6bd4e6ad4208acaca7"
 dependencies = [
  "proc-macro2",
 ]
@@ -585,9 +585,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "redox_syscall"
-version = "0.4.1"
+version = "0.5.2"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "4722d768eff46b75989dd134e5c353f0d6296e5aaa3132e776cbdb56be7731aa"
+checksum = "c82cf8cff14456045f55ec4241383baeff27af886adb72ffb2162f99911de0fd"
 dependencies = [
  "bitflags",
 ]
@@ -600,7 +600,7 @@ checksum = "08d43f7aa6b08d49f382cde6a7982047c3426db949b1424bc4b7ec9ae12c6ce2"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "rustworkx"
-version = "0.15.0"
+version = "0.15.1"
 dependencies = [
  "ahash",
  "fixedbitset",
@@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "rustworkx-core"
-version = "0.15.0"
+version = "0.15.1"
 dependencies = [
  "ahash",
  "fixedbitset",
@@ -645,9 +645,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "ryu"
-version = "1.0.17"
+version = "1.0.18"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "e86697c916019a8588c99b5fac3cead74ec0b4b819707a682fd4d23fa0ce1ba1"
+checksum = "f3cb5ba0dc43242ce17de99c180e96db90b235b8a9fdc9543c96d2209116bd9f"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "scopeguard"
@@ -709,9 +709,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "syn"
-version = "2.0.57"
+version = "2.0.68"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "11a6ae1e52eb25aab8f3fb9fca13be982a373b8f1157ca14b897a825ba4a2d35"
+checksum = "901fa70d88b9d6c98022e23b4136f9f3e54e4662c3bc1bd1d84a42a9a0f0c1e9"
 dependencies = [
  "proc-macro2",
  "quote",
@@ -750,13 +750,14 @@ checksum = "9c8d87e72b64a3b4db28d11ce29237c246188f4f51057d65a7eab63b7987e423"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "windows-targets"
-version = "0.48.5"
+version = "0.52.5"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "9a2fa6e2155d7247be68c096456083145c183cbbbc2764150dda45a87197940c"
+checksum = "6f0713a46559409d202e70e28227288446bf7841d3211583a4b53e3f6d96e7eb"
 dependencies = [
  "windows_aarch64_gnullvm",
  "windows_aarch64_msvc",
  "windows_i686_gnu",
+ "windows_i686_gnullvm",
  "windows_i686_msvc",
  "windows_x86_64_gnu",
  "windows_x86_64_gnullvm",
@@ -765,60 +766,66 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "windows_aarch64_gnullvm"
-version = "0.48.5"
+version = "0.52.5"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "2b38e32f0abccf9987a4e3079dfb67dcd799fb61361e53e2882c3cbaf0d905d8"
+checksum = "7088eed71e8b8dda258ecc8bac5fb1153c5cffaf2578fc8ff5d61e23578d3263"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "windows_aarch64_msvc"
-version = "0.48.5"
+version = "0.52.5"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "dc35310971f3b2dbbf3f0690a219f40e2d9afcf64f9ab7cc1be722937c26b4bc"
+checksum = "9985fd1504e250c615ca5f281c3f7a6da76213ebd5ccc9561496568a2752afb6"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "windows_i686_gnu"
-version = "0.48.5"
+version = "0.52.5"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "88ba073cf16d5372720ec942a8ccbf61626074c6d4dd2e745299726ce8b89670"
+
+[[package]]
+name = "windows_i686_gnullvm"
+version = "0.52.5"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "a75915e7def60c94dcef72200b9a8e58e5091744960da64ec734a6c6e9b3743e"
+checksum = "87f4261229030a858f36b459e748ae97545d6f1ec60e5e0d6a3d32e0dc232ee9"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "windows_i686_msvc"
-version = "0.48.5"
+version = "0.52.5"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "8f55c233f70c4b27f66c523580f78f1004e8b5a8b659e05a4eb49d4166cca406"
+checksum = "db3c2bf3d13d5b658be73463284eaf12830ac9a26a90c717b7f771dfe97487bf"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "windows_x86_64_gnu"
-version = "0.48.5"
+version = "0.52.5"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "53d40abd2583d23e4718fddf1ebec84dbff8381c07cae67ff7768bbf19c6718e"
+checksum = "4e4246f76bdeff09eb48875a0fd3e2af6aada79d409d33011886d3e1581517d9"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "windows_x86_64_gnullvm"
-version = "0.48.5"
+version = "0.52.5"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "0b7b52767868a23d5bab768e390dc5f5c55825b6d30b86c844ff2dc7414044cc"
+checksum = "852298e482cd67c356ddd9570386e2862b5673c85bd5f88df9ab6802b334c596"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "windows_x86_64_msvc"
-version = "0.48.5"
+version = "0.52.5"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "ed94fce61571a4006852b7389a063ab983c02eb1bb37b47f8272ce92d06d9538"
+checksum = "bec47e5bfd1bff0eeaf6d8b485cc1074891a197ab4225d504cb7a1ab88b02bf0"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "zerocopy"
-version = "0.7.32"
+version = "0.7.34"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "74d4d3961e53fa4c9a25a8637fc2bfaf2595b3d3ae34875568a5cf64787716be"
+checksum = "ae87e3fcd617500e5d106f0380cf7b77f3c6092aae37191433159dda23cfb087"
 dependencies = [
  "zerocopy-derive",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
 name = "zerocopy-derive"
-version = "0.7.32"
+version = "0.7.34"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "9ce1b18ccd8e73a9321186f97e46f9f04b778851177567b1975109d26a08d2a6"
+checksum = "15e934569e47891f7d9411f1a451d947a60e000ab3bd24fbb970f000387d1b3b"
 dependencies = [
  "proc-macro2",
  "quote",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index f91c49316..003a8d398 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ members = [
 ]
 
 [workspace.package]
-version = "0.15.0"
+version = "0.15.1"
 edition = "2021"
 rust-version = "1.70"
 authors = ["Matthew Treinish <mtreinish@kortar.org>"]
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ rayon.workspace = true
 serde = { version = "1.0", features = ["derive"] }
 serde_json = "1.0"
 smallvec = { version = "1.0", features = ["union"] }
-rustworkx-core = { path = "rustworkx-core", version = "=0.15.0" }
+rustworkx-core = { path = "rustworkx-core", version = "=0.15.1" }
 
 [dependencies.pyo3]
 version = "0.21.2"
diff --git a/docs/source/conf.py b/docs/source/conf.py
index e482375e5..675c09b61 100644
--- a/docs/source/conf.py
+++ b/docs/source/conf.py
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
 # The short X.Y version.
 version = '0.15'
 # The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags.
-release = '0.15.0'
+release = '0.15.1'
 
 extensions = ['sphinx.ext.autodoc',
               'sphinx.ext.autosummary',
diff --git a/releasenotes/notes/0.15/add-layers-rustworkx-core-1caaccb1ca292ca8.yaml b/releasenotes/notes/0.15/add-layers-rustworkx-core-1caaccb1ca292ca8.yaml
index 0e6921ebb..00cd9da19 100644
--- a/releasenotes/notes/0.15/add-layers-rustworkx-core-1caaccb1ca292ca8.yaml
+++ b/releasenotes/notes/0.15/add-layers-rustworkx-core-1caaccb1ca292ca8.yaml
@@ -1,11 +1,13 @@
 ---
 features:
   - |
-    Added a function ``~rustworkx_core.dag_algo::layers`` in rustworkx-core to 
-    get the layers of a directed acyclic graph.  This is equivalent to the
+    Added a new function ``rustworkx_core::dag_algo::layers`` to rustworkx-core
+    to get the layers of a directed acyclic graph.  This is equivalent to the
     :func:`.layers` function that existed in the Python API but now exposes it
     for Rust users too.
 fix:
   - |
-    When calling ``~rustworkx_core.dag_algo::layers``if the provided graph has
-    a cycle, the function will throw a ``DAGHasCycle`` error instance.
\ No newline at end of file
+    When calling :func:`~.layers` with a graph containing a cycle, the
+    function will throw a ``DAGHasCycle`` error instance now. Previously, the
+    function would get stuck in an infinite loop if a graph with a cycle was
+    passed to the function.
diff --git a/releasenotes/notes/fix-graphviz-escaping-39a2d1cebb586eca.yaml b/releasenotes/notes/0.15/fix-graphviz-escaping-39a2d1cebb586eca.yaml
similarity index 51%
rename from releasenotes/notes/fix-graphviz-escaping-39a2d1cebb586eca.yaml
rename to releasenotes/notes/0.15/fix-graphviz-escaping-39a2d1cebb586eca.yaml
index 13d1e3bbf..c068b532b 100644
--- a/releasenotes/notes/fix-graphviz-escaping-39a2d1cebb586eca.yaml
+++ b/releasenotes/notes/0.15/fix-graphviz-escaping-39a2d1cebb586eca.yaml
@@ -4,10 +4,10 @@ fixes:
     Fixed an issue in the :func:`~.graphviz_draw`, :meth:`.PyGraph.to_dot`, and
     :meth:`.PyDiGraph.to_dot` which was incorrectly escaping strings when
     upgrading to 0.15.0. In earlier versions of rustworkx if you manually
-    placed quotes in a string for an attr callback get that to pass through to 
-    the output dot file this was incorrectly being converted in rustworkx 0.15.0
-    to duplicate the quotes and escape them. For example, if you defined a
-    callback like::
+    placed quotes in a string for an attr callback to get that to pass through
+    to the output dot file, this was incorrectly being converted in rustworkx
+    0.15.0 to duplicate the quotes and escape them. For example, if you defined
+    a callback like::
 
         def color_node(_node):
             return {
@@ -15,8 +15,8 @@ fixes:
             }
 
     to set the color attribute in the output dot file with the string
-    `"#422952"` (with the quotes) this was incorrectly being converted to
-    `\"#422952\"`. This no longer occurs, in rustworkx 0.16.0 there will likely
-    be additional options exposed in :func:`~.graphviz_draw`,
+    ``"#422952"`` (with the quotes), this was incorrectly being converted to
+    ``"\"#422952\""``. This no longer occurs, in rustworkx 0.16.0 there will
+    likely be additional options exposed in :func:`~.graphviz_draw`,
     :meth:`.PyGraph.to_dot`, and :meth:`.PyDiGraph.to_dot` to expose further
     options around this.
diff --git a/releasenotes/notes/hexagonal-lattice-graph-fixes-1cd4aa88f1591701.yaml b/releasenotes/notes/0.15/hexagonal-lattice-graph-fixes-1cd4aa88f1591701.yaml
similarity index 100%
rename from releasenotes/notes/hexagonal-lattice-graph-fixes-1cd4aa88f1591701.yaml
rename to releasenotes/notes/0.15/hexagonal-lattice-graph-fixes-1cd4aa88f1591701.yaml
diff --git a/releasenotes/notes/0.15/prepare-0.15.1-6d729ee825aaeefe.yaml b/releasenotes/notes/0.15/prepare-0.15.1-6d729ee825aaeefe.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..062a1cdea
--- /dev/null
+++ b/releasenotes/notes/0.15/prepare-0.15.1-6d729ee825aaeefe.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+---
+prelude: >
+  This release is a bugfix patch release that fixes an inadvertent breaking
+  API change for the :func:`.graphviz_draw` function in the 0.15.0 release.
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 40bf25ca8..f43c10c7f 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ def readme():
 graphviz_extras = ["pillow>=5.4"]
 
 PKG_NAME = os.getenv("RUSTWORKX_PKG_NAME", "rustworkx")
-PKG_VERSION = "0.15.0"
+PKG_VERSION = "0.15.1"
 PKG_PACKAGES = ["rustworkx", "rustworkx.visualization"]
 PKG_INSTALL_REQUIRES = ["numpy>=1.16.0,<3"]
 RUST_EXTENSIONS = [RustExtension("rustworkx.rustworkx", "Cargo.toml",