diff --git a/man/meson.1 b/man/meson.1
index 259ea92dab52..055e9186900f 100644
--- a/man/meson.1
+++ b/man/meson.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.TH MESON "1" "March 2022" "meson 0.61.4" "User Commands"
+.TH MESON "1" "May 2022" "meson 0.61.5 (LTS)" "User Commands"
 .SH NAME
 meson - a high productivity build system
 .SH DESCRIPTION
diff --git a/mesonbuild/coredata.py b/mesonbuild/coredata.py
index 6b77e71f39cd..176d7dc61c79 100644
--- a/mesonbuild/coredata.py
+++ b/mesonbuild/coredata.py
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@
 #
 # Pip requires that RCs are named like this: '0.1.0.rc1'
 # But the corresponding Git tag needs to be '0.1.0rc1'
-version = '0.61.4'
+version = '0.61.5'
 
 backendlist = ['ninja', 'vs', 'vs2010', 'vs2012', 'vs2013', 'vs2015', 'vs2017', 'vs2019', 'vs2022', 'xcode']