release: prepare for 0.5.1

Author: jonasnick

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -5,13 +5,20 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/),
 and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html).
 
-## [Unreleased]
+## [0.5.1] - 2024-08-01
 
 #### Added
  - Added usage example for an ElligatorSwift key exchange.
 
+#### Changed
+ - The default size of the precomputed table for signing was changed from 22 KiB to 86 KiB. The size can be changed with the configure option `--ecmult-gen-kb` (`SECP256K1_ECMULT_GEN_KB` for CMake).
+ - "auto" is no longer an accepted value for the `--with-ecmult-window` and `--with-ecmult-gen-kb` configure options (this also applies to  `SECP256K1_ECMULT_WINDOW_SIZE` and `SECP256K1_ECMULT_GEN_KB` in CMake). To achieve the same configuration as previously provided by the "auto" value, omit setting the configure option explicitly.
+
 #### Fixed
-- Fixed compilation when the extrakeys module is disabled.
+ - Fixed compilation when the extrakeys module is disabled.
+
+#### ABI Compatibility
+The ABI is backward compatible with versions 0.5.0, 0.4.x and 0.3.x.
 
 ## [0.5.0] - 2024-05-06
 
@@ -134,7 +141,7 @@ This version was in fact never released.
 The number was given by the build system since the introduction of autotools in Jan 2014 (ea0fe5a5bf0c04f9cc955b2966b614f5f378c6f6).
 Therefore, this version number does not uniquely identify a set of source files.
 
-[unreleased]: https://github.com/bitcoin-core/secp256k1/compare/v0.5.0...HEAD
+[0.5.1]: https://github.com/bitcoin-core/secp256k1/compare/v0.5.0...v0.5.1
 [0.5.0]: https://github.com/bitcoin-core/secp256k1/compare/v0.4.1...v0.5.0
 [0.4.1]: https://github.com/bitcoin-core/secp256k1/compare/v0.4.0...v0.4.1
 [0.4.0]: https://github.com/bitcoin-core/secp256k1/compare/v0.3.2...v0.4.0

configure.ac

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ AC_PREREQ([2.60])
 define(_PKG_VERSION_MAJOR, 0)
 define(_PKG_VERSION_MINOR, 5)
 define(_PKG_VERSION_PATCH, 1)
-define(_PKG_VERSION_IS_RELEASE, false)
+define(_PKG_VERSION_IS_RELEASE, true)
 
 # The library version is based on libtool versioning of the ABI. The set of
 # rules for updating the version can be found here: