diff --git a/packaging/debian/changelog b/packaging/debian/changelog
index cf39dccb..974c48f2 100644
--- a/packaging/debian/changelog
+++ b/packaging/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+guibot (0.51-1) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  * API improvements like standardization and additional convenience methods.
+  * Support for native (py)tesseract text detection and simpler tessdata setup.
+
+ -- Plamen Dimitrov <plamen.dimitrov@intra2net.com>  Thu, 2 May 2024 13:00:00 +0700
+
 guibot (0.50-1) unstable; urgency=medium
 
   * Windows packager script and CI verification.
diff --git a/packaging/debian/copyright b/packaging/debian/copyright
index 1a56ffa8..07b95821 100644
--- a/packaging/debian/copyright
+++ b/packaging/debian/copyright
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-Copyright: 2013-2022 Intranet AG and contributors
+Copyright: 2013-2024 Intranet AG and contributors
 License: LGPLv3+
diff --git a/packaging/guibot.spec b/packaging/guibot.spec
index 3ffe02aa..10ab99a3 100644
--- a/packaging/guibot.spec
+++ b/packaging/guibot.spec
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 %bcond_with opencv
 
 Name:           guibot
-Version:        0.50
+Version:        0.51
 Release:        1%{?dist}
 Summary:        GUI automation tool
 
@@ -84,6 +84,10 @@ rm -rf %{buildroot}
 
 
 %changelog
+* Thu May 2 2024 Plamen Dimitrov <plamen.dimitrov@intra2net.com> - 0.51-1
+- API improvements like standardization and additional convenience methods.
+- Support for native (py)tesseract text detection and simpler tessdata setup.
+
 * Fri Jan 28 2022 Plamen Dimitrov <plamen.dimitrov@intra2net.com> - 0.50-1
 - Windows packager script and CI verification
 - Default PyAutoGUI display controller instead of AutoPy
diff --git a/packaging/setup.py b/packaging/setup.py
index 3505e6c0..8963e475 100644
--- a/packaging/setup.py
+++ b/packaging/setup.py
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 
 setup(
     name='guibot',
-    version='0.50.1',
+    version='0.51.1',
     description='GUI automation tool',
     long_description=README,
     long_description_content_type='text/markdown',