diff --git a/avrdude/ChangeLog b/avrdude/ChangeLog
index 1f8266aa..98a70521 100644
--- a/avrdude/ChangeLog
+++ b/avrdude/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2011-09-15  Joerg Wunsch <j.gnu@uriah.heep.sax.de>
+
+	* configure.ac: Bump version for releasing AVRDUDE 5.11.1.
+
 2011-09-15  Joerg Wunsch <j.gnu@uriah.heep.sax.de>
 
 	* stk500v2.c (stk600_xprog_paged_load, stk600_xprog_paged_write):
diff --git a/avrdude/configure.ac b/avrdude/configure.ac
index 3118fe5a..e679514d 100644
--- a/avrdude/configure.ac
+++ b/avrdude/configure.ac
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 # Process this file with autoconf to produce a configure script.
 
 AC_PREREQ(2.57)
-AC_INIT(avrdude, 5.11.1rc, avrdude-dev@nongnu.org)
+AC_INIT(avrdude, 5.11.1, avrdude-dev@nongnu.org)
 
 AC_CANONICAL_BUILD
 AC_CANONICAL_HOST