diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 1695964bc..61e2434ca 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Package: vctrs
 Title: Vector Helpers
-Version: 0.5.1.9000
+Version: 0.5.2
 Authors@R: 
     c(person(given = "Hadley",
              family = "Wickham",
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 60dddec7a..e96b4f23f 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# vctrs (development version)
+# vctrs 0.5.2
 
 * New `vec_expand_grid()`, which is a lower level helper that is similar to
   `tidyr::expand_grid()` (#1325).
diff --git a/cran-comments.md b/cran-comments.md
index 3585fd769..1ea825650 100644
--- a/cran-comments.md
+++ b/cran-comments.md
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Fixes the failure with R-devel.
+This is a patch release with no expected breakage of any reverse dependencies.
diff --git a/src/bind.c b/src/bind.c
index 506024be6..335574c24 100644
--- a/src/bind.c
+++ b/src/bind.c
@@ -242,6 +242,7 @@ r_obj* vec_rbind(r_obj* xs,
 
   df_c_fallback(out, ptype, xs, n_rows, name_spec, name_repair, error_call);
   out = vec_restore_recurse(out, ptype, VCTRS_OWNED_true);
+  KEEP_AT(out, out_pi);
 
   if (has_names_to) {
     out = df_poke(out, names_to_loc, names_to_col);
diff --git a/src/version.c b/src/version.c
index 573a574a3..35c6ced1a 100644
--- a/src/version.c
+++ b/src/version.c
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #define R_NO_REMAP
 #include <Rinternals.h>
 
-const char* vctrs_version = "0.5.1.9000";
+const char* vctrs_version = "0.5.2";
 
 /**
  * This file records the expected package version in the shared