diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
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@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+## 2.5.1
+
+- Fix some local images not having their EXIF metadata stripped on upload (#8714)
+- Fix class autoloading issue in ActivityPub Create handler (#8820)
+- Fix cache statistics not being sent via statsd when statsd enabled (#8831)
+- Fix being able to enable a disabled relay via ActivityPub Accept handler (#8864)
+- Bump nokogiri from 1.8.4 to 1.8.5 (#8881)
+- Bump puma from 3.11.4 to 3.12.0 (#8883)
+- Fix database migrations for PostgreSQL below 9.5 (#8903)
+- Fix being able to report statuses not belonging to the reported account (#8916)
diff --git a/lib/mastodon/version.rb b/lib/mastodon/version.rb
index 0e41a9a6d9e02e58968507e2075130c9ea3604b4..e6d3af35dbfa7580eb593ee44344a51fd1fb886e 100644
--- a/lib/mastodon/version.rb
+++ b/lib/mastodon/version.rb
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ module Mastodon
     end
 
     def patch
-      0
+      1
     end
 
     def pre