diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
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+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@ Type: Package
 Package: gDRcore
 Title: Processing functions and interface to process and analyze drug
     dose-response data
-Version: 1.3.15
-Date: 2024-10-30
+Version: 1.5.1
+Date: 2024-11-05
 Authors@R: c(
     person("Bartosz", "Czech", , "bartosz.czech@contractors.roche.com", role = "aut",
            comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-9908-3007")),
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
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@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+## gDRcore 1.5.1 - 2024-11-05
+* synchronize Bioconductor and GitHub versioning
+
 ## gDRcore 1.3.15 - 2024-10-30
 * hot fix for annotation colnames of cell lines