diff --git a/.zenodo.json b/.zenodo.json
index 16555380a4..9b4621464f 100644
--- a/.zenodo.json
+++ b/.zenodo.json
@@ -87,6 +87,11 @@
     {
       "name": "Moloney, Brendan"
     },
+    {
+      "affiliation": "MIT",
+      "name": "Goncalves, Mathias",
+      "orcid": "0000-0002-7252-7771"
+    },
     {
       "name": "Burns, Christopher"
     },
@@ -130,11 +135,6 @@
     {
       "name": "Baker, Eric M."
     },
-    {
-      "affiliation": "MIT",
-      "name": "Goncalves, Mathias",
-      "orcid": "0000-0002-7252-7771"
-    },
     {
       "name": "Hayashi, Soichi"
     },
@@ -244,6 +244,11 @@
       "name": "P\u00e9rez-Garc\u00eda, Fernando",
       "orcid": "0000-0001-9090-3024"
     },
+    {
+      "affiliation": "Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, University of Minnesota",
+      "name": "Braun, Henry",
+      "orcid": "0000-0001-7003-9822"
+    },
     {
       "name": "Solovey, Igor"
     },
diff --git a/Changelog b/Changelog
index 832e7d0843..fb004c93e3 100644
--- a/Changelog
+++ b/Changelog
@@ -25,6 +25,33 @@ Eric Larson (EL), Demian Wassermann, and Stephan Gerhard.
 
 References like "pr/298" refer to github pull request numbers.
 
+2.5.1 (Monday 23 September 2019)
+================================
+
+Enhancements
+------------
+* Ignore endianness in ``nib-diff`` if values match (pr/799) (YOH, reviewed
+  by CM)
+
+Bug fixes
+---------
+* Correctly handle Philips DICOMs w/ derived volume (pr/795) (Mathias
+  Goncalves, reviewed by CM)
+* Raise CSA tag limit to 1000, parametrize for future relaxing (pr/798,
+  backported to 2.5.x in pr/800) (Henry Braun, reviewed by CM, MB)
+* Coerce data types to match NIfTI intent codes when writing GIFTI data
+  arrays (pr/806) (CM, reported by Tom Holroyd)
+
+Maintenance
+-----------
+* Require h5py 2.10 for Windows + Python < 3.6 to resolve unexpected dtypes
+  in Minc2 data (pr/804) (CM, reviewed by YOH)
+
+API changes and deprecations
+----------------------------
+* Deprecate ``nicom.dicomwrappers.Wrapper.get_affine()`` in favor of ``affine``
+  property; final removal in nibabel 4.0 (pr/796) (YOH, reviewed by CM)
+
 2.5.0 (Sunday 4 August 2019)
 ============================
 
diff --git a/doc/source/index.rst b/doc/source/index.rst
index ce1db32b86..09f09d4883 100644
--- a/doc/source/index.rst
+++ b/doc/source/index.rst
@@ -98,6 +98,7 @@ contributed code and discussion (in rough order of appearance):
 * Matt Cieslak
 * Egor Pafilov
 * Jath Palasubramaniam
+* Henry Braun
 
 License reprise
 ===============
diff --git a/nibabel/info.py b/nibabel/info.py
index 12d0dc9d7e..c45e36c8e6 100644
--- a/nibabel/info.py
+++ b/nibabel/info.py
@@ -19,8 +19,8 @@
 _version_major = 2
 _version_minor = 5
 _version_micro = 1
-_version_extra = 'dev'
-# _version_extra = ''
+# _version_extra = 'dev'
+_version_extra = ''
 
 # Format expected by setup.py and doc/source/conf.py: string of form "X.Y.Z"
 __version__ = "%s.%s.%s%s" % (_version_major,
diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
index 69bd84afe7..08e8727424 100644
--- a/setup.cfg
+++ b/setup.cfg
@@ -34,7 +34,8 @@ install_requires =
     numpy >=1.8
     six >=1.3
     bz2file ; python_version < "3.0"
-tests_require = nose
+tests_require =
+    nose >=0.11
 test_suite = nose.collector
 zip_safe = False
 packages = find:
@@ -46,7 +47,7 @@ dicom =
 doc =
     sphinx >=0.3
 test =
-    nose >=0.10.1
+    nose >=0.11
 all =
     %(dicom)s
     %(doc)s