diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index f732a78..eb6855c 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-0.51-test2 prerelease
+0.51 - Thu 27 March 2008
 
 - Make a copy of password fields rather erroneously relying on getwpnam()
   to be safe to call multiple times
@@ -7,8 +7,8 @@
   as well) always use that program, ignoring isatty() and $DISPLAY
 
 - Wait until a process exits before the server closes a connection, so
-  that an exit code can be sent. This fixes problems with scp failing
-  with exit code 255.
+  that an exit code can be sent. This fixes problems with exit codes not
+  being returned, which could cause scp to fail.
 
 0.50 - Wed 8 August 2007
 
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 78dcea9..f51769b 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+dropbear (0.51-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * New upstream release.
+
+ -- Matt Johnston <matt@ucc.asn.au>  Thu, 27 Mar 2008 19:14:00 +0900
+
 dropbear (0.50-4) unstable; urgency=low
 
   * debian/dropbear.init: apply patch from Petter Reinholdtsen: add LSB