diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md
index f1edc5e30..bf264da04 100644
--- a/CHANGES.md
+++ b/CHANGES.md
@@ -16,6 +16,11 @@ Releases are also tagged in git, if that's helpful.
 
 ## Current
 
+**2.6.51 - 2024-01-14**
+
+- Fixes:
+  - `extract_from_text` now returns plain citation strings, instead of parsed dicts
+
 **2.6.50 - 2024-01-10**
 
 - Fixes:
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index ccb51b005..d653f43b0 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 from setuptools import find_packages, setup
 from setuptools.command.install import install
 
-VERSION = "2.6.50"
+VERSION = "2.6.51"
 AUTHOR = "Free Law Project"
 EMAIL = "info@free.law"
 HERE = os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__))