diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 803bde4..174cef9 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Package: rhdf5
 Type: Package
 Title: R Interface to HDF5
-Version: 2.51.0
+Version: 2.51.1
 Authors@R: c(person("Bernd", "Fischer", role = c("aut")), 
         person("Mike", "Smith", 
             role=c("aut", "cre"), 
@@ -33,4 +33,4 @@ SystemRequirements: GNU make
 biocViews: Infrastructure, DataImport
 Encoding: UTF-8
 Roxygen: list(markdown = TRUE)
-RoxygenNote: 7.3.1
+RoxygenNote: 7.3.2
diff --git a/inst/NEWS.Rd b/inst/NEWS.Rd
index 586e953..9280912 100644
--- a/inst/NEWS.Rd
+++ b/inst/NEWS.Rd
@@ -1,6 +1,16 @@
 \name{NEWS}
 \title{News for Package 'rhdf5'}
 
+\section{Changes in version 2.52.0}{
+
+  \subsection{Bug fixes}{
+    \itemize{
+      \item Fixed overflow when trying to write a large number of very long
+      strings.  Backported to 2.50.1. 
+      (Thanks to Aaron Lun @LTLA for reporting this
+      https://github.com/grimbough/rhdf5/issues/151).
+}
+
 \section{Changes in version 2.48.0}{
 
   \subsection{CHANGES}{