diff --git a/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/bug_report.yml b/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/bug_report.yml
index 5c685a239..1d0e42234 100644
--- a/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/bug_report.yml
+++ b/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/bug_report.yml
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ body:
       description: What version of our software are you running?
       options:
         - current main
-        - v0.5.0
+        - v0.5.1
         - v0.4.0
         - v0.3.0
         - v0.2.0
diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index 8f0916f76..5d4294b91 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-0.5.0
+0.5.1
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/docs/changelog.md b/docs/changelog.md
index d9a768769..723c2e5d5 100644
--- a/docs/changelog.md
+++ b/docs/changelog.md
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 
 
 
-## Version 0.5.0
+## Version 0.5.1
 
 **⚠ DEPRECATION WARNING**
 This is the last release before major changes in the interfaces of the scanning probe toolchain (see PR #97).
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ constraints to allow non-uniform sampling mode.
 - Bumped `qudi-core` package minimum version requirement to v1.5.0
 - Got rid of deprecated `qudi.core.interface` module usage
 - Support for Python 3.10
+- This version 0.5.1 fixes a requirement issue found while pushing release 0.5.0 to test-pypi 
 
 ## Version 0.4.0
 ### Breaking Changes
diff --git a/docs/installation_guide.md b/docs/installation_guide.md
index 625819f4e..86ba10941 100644
--- a/docs/installation_guide.md
+++ b/docs/installation_guide.md
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ Now you qudi-core installation will know about the measurement modules and it's
   If you encounter bugs, especially ones that relate to dependency packages, you can roll back to the latest stable release by:
 
         cd C:/Software/qudi-iqo-modules
-        git checkout tags/v0.5.0
+        git checkout tags/v0.5.1
         python -m pip install -e .
 
 - In rare cases and mostly with old versions of qudi-core, qudi-iqo-modules can be incompatible with qudi-core. If you encounter errors related to this, try to update manually to the latest qudi-core github release via `python -m pip install git+https://github.com/Ulm-IQO/qudi-core.git@main`.