From 4d1df60b81e0a68d0abd044747458c6a2e744764 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Pivarski <jpivarski@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2023 15:00:36 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] The next release will be 5.1.0rc1.

---
 src/uproot/version.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/uproot/version.py b/src/uproot/version.py
index 74738c2e6..82e504a9f 100644
--- a/src/uproot/version.py
+++ b/src/uproot/version.py
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 
 import re
 
-__version__ = "5.0.12"
+__version__ = "5.1.0rc1"
 version = __version__
 version_info = tuple(re.split(r"[-\.]", __version__))