diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 6cbab0a2ca6..8714eb69e5c 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ AC_PREREQ([2.63])
 
 define([ucx_ver_major], 1)
 define([ucx_ver_minor], 5)
-define([ucx_ver_patch], 0)
+define([ucx_ver_patch], 1)
 define([ts], esyscmd([sh -c "date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S"]))
 
 # This is the API version (see libtool library versioning)
diff --git a/ucx.spec.in b/ucx.spec.in
index 42240566078..b0c2cb367b3 100644
--- a/ucx.spec.in
+++ b/ucx.spec.in
@@ -82,6 +82,9 @@ rm -f %{buildroot}%{_libdir}/*.la
 %postun -p /sbin/ldconfig
 
 %changelog
+* Sat Mar 23 2019 Yossi Itigin <yosefe@mellanox.com> 1.5.1-1
+- Bump version to 1.5.1
+- See NEWS for details
 * Tue Nov 6 2018 Andrey Maslennikov <andreyma@mellanox.com> 1.5.0-1
 - Bump version to 1.5.0
 - See NEWS for details