diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 07b55756..84cb88eb 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -7,11 +7,12 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 
 ## [Unreleased]
 
-* Made storagecounter use a watchdog (inotify) instead of excessive file reads
-* Bumped urllib3 to 1.25.10
-* Removed use of communicator's storagecounter to reduce coupling
+
+## [5.0.1] - 2020-08-08
+
+* bumped deadsimplekv to 0.3.2
+* bumped urllib3 to 1.25.10
 
 ## [5.0.0] - 2020-07-23
 
 - Removed single-process POW support (was only needed on Windows)
-
diff --git a/src/etc/onionrvalues.py b/src/etc/onionrvalues.py
index 47e55181..e222a3cb 100755
--- a/src/etc/onionrvalues.py
+++ b/src/etc/onionrvalues.py
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ import filepaths
 DENIABLE_PEER_ADDRESS = "OVPCZLOXD6DC5JHX4EQ3PSOGAZ3T24F75HQLIUZSDSMYPEOXCPFA"
 PASSWORD_LENGTH = 25
 ONIONR_TAGLINE = 'Private P2P Communication - GPLv3 - https://Onionr.net'
-ONIONR_VERSION = '5.0.0'
+ONIONR_VERSION = '5.0.1'
 ONIONR_VERSION_CODENAME = 'Genesis'
 ONIONR_VERSION_TUPLE = tuple(ONIONR_VERSION.split('.')) # (MAJOR, MINOR, VERSION)
 API_VERSION = '1' # increments of 1; only change when something fundamental about how the API works changes. This way other nodes know how to communicate without learning too much information about you.