diff --git a/.bumpversion.cfg b/.bumpversion.cfg
index 3b2dda73..7aa5581d 100644
--- a/.bumpversion.cfg
+++ b/.bumpversion.cfg
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 [bumpversion]
-current_version = 5.1.0rc
+current_version = 5.1.0
 commit = True
 parse = (?P<major>\d+)\.(?P<minor>\d+)\.(?P<patch>\d+)((?P<release>.*))?
 serialize = 
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 61d62f41..436f8168 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 import sys
 
 # Do not update the version manually - it is managed by `bumpversion`.
-version = '5.1.0rc'
+version = '5.1.0'
 
 
 requirements = [
diff --git a/src/pydocstyle/utils.py b/src/pydocstyle/utils.py
index 4ccd243b..1a8ca704 100644
--- a/src/pydocstyle/utils.py
+++ b/src/pydocstyle/utils.py
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 
 
 # Do not update the version manually - it is managed by `bumpversion`.
-__version__ = '5.1.0rc'
+__version__ = '5.1.0'
 log = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
 #: Regular expression for stripping non-alphanumeric characters