diff --git a/README.mkdn b/README.mkdn
index 0fe9bbf..148e2af 100644
--- a/README.mkdn
+++ b/README.mkdn
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Parse::Syslog::Line - Simple syslog line parser
 
 # VERSION
 
-version 5.0
+version 5.1
 
 # SYNOPSIS
 
diff --git a/lib/Parse/Syslog/Line.pm b/lib/Parse/Syslog/Line.pm
index 4d6c611..09e4f7a 100644
--- a/lib/Parse/Syslog/Line.pm
+++ b/lib/Parse/Syslog/Line.pm
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ use Module::Loaded qw( is_loaded );
 use POSIX          qw( strftime tzset );
 use Ref::Util      qw( is_arrayref );
 
-our $VERSION = '5.0';
+our $VERSION = '5.1';
 
 # Default for Handling Parsing
 our $DateParsing     = 1;