diff --git a/footnotes.php b/footnotes.php
index 052cd5b..b08b810 100755
--- a/footnotes.php
+++ b/footnotes.php
@@ -4,12 +4,12 @@
     Plugin URI: https://wordpress.org/plugins/footnotes/
     Description: time to bring footnotes to your website! footnotes are known from offline publishing and everybody takes them for granted when reading a magazine.
     Author: Mark Cheret
-    Version: 2.5.1d2
+    Version: 2.5.1
     Author URI: http://cheret.de/plugins/footnotes-2/
     Text Domain: footnotes
     Domain Path: /languages
 */
-define( 'FOOTNOTES_VERSION', '2.5.1d2' );
+define( 'FOOTNOTES_VERSION', '2.5.1' );
 /*
     Copyright 2020 Mark Cheret (email: mark@cheret.de)
 
diff --git a/readme.txt b/readme.txt
index 261d703..780b217 100755
--- a/readme.txt
+++ b/readme.txt
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Tags: footnote, footnotes, bibliography, formatting, notes, Post, posts, referen
 Requires at least: 3.9
 Tested up to: 5.6
 Requires PHP: 5.6
-Stable Tag: 2.5.0
+Stable Tag: 2.5.1
 License: GPLv3 or later
 License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html