diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 7cf1207c00325417ea6901d0d4c60a2f0b2630cc..ba6608d08983b6dc5e59178aa10651fe3d9a1452 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,14 @@
+phosh-osk-stevia 0.51~rc1
+-------------------------
+Released November 2025
+* Give up when we fail to claim the DBus name on startup
+* Don't spawn two instances with gnome-session-bin < 49
+* Fix backspace delete issues in emoji and numeric layouts
+* Issues fixed:
+    * https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Phosh/stevia/-/issues/77
+* Contributors:
+    * Guido Günther
+
 phosh-osk-stevia 0.50.1
 -----------------------
 Released October 2025
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index f74cf7bbe79e935f7bdfb368fd948e87408172fb..d9c3de3ce125b42e596b9916885d4a80c2bcd4ce 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,49 @@
+phosh-osk-stevia (0.51~rc1) experimental; urgency=medium
+
+  * input-surface: Don't trigger key repeat when deleting in emoji layout.
+    Otherwise we delete until the user presses another symbol
+    Fixes: 1de94920e ("input-surface: Delete last word on backspace long press")
+  * input-surface: Don't trigger key repeat when deleting in number layout.
+    Fixes: 1de94920e ("input-surface: Delete last word on backspace long press")
+  * run: Better restore keyboard state.
+    Always restore the state when the script exits
+  * input-surface: Reset layout in one place.
+    We do the same thing when switching away from special layouts, to that in a single place.
+    No functional change.
+  * input-surface: Restore old layout when hiding keyboard.
+    When hiding the keyboard we want to make sure the next time it is opened the layout matches the
+    input purpose rather than what the user selected. Otherwise the user might see the emoji
+    layout rather than a regular layout after swipe closing the keyboard and unfolding it again.
+  * stevia: Remove pointless cast
+  * stevia: Make debug flags static.
+    They should move into PhoshOskStevia at some point
+  * stevia: Rename application class object.
+    Name the application object as such. This is shorter but more
+    importantly fits our name space.
+  * app: Add to shared header.
+    This makes the application object available to other parts
+    of the OSK.
+  * build: Exclude pos-osk-dbus from library.
+    We want to spit pos-app out out into its own file at some point
+    but that needs more disentangling so rather move pos-osk-dbus
+    out of the shared lib for the moment to fix the doc build.
+  * stevia: Allow to get app singleton
+  * app: Allow to quit with exit status.
+    Add a method to exit the main loop with an exit status. Using
+    this we can pass our app object around rather than the main loop
+    giving us more type safety.
+  * emoji-picker: Only unref `data` when set.
+    Otherwise we might throw a critical when the data was never
+    loaded.
+  * dbus: Exit when we couldn't ever grab the DBus name.
+    This makes sure stevia exits when it grab the DBus name on startup.
+    We still allow for another instance to temporarily grab the name.
+    Closes: https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Phosh/stevia/-/issues/77
+  * data: Let gnome-session-bin prefer the systemd unit.
+    This avoids having multiple instances spawned.
+
+ -- Guido Günther <agx@sigxcpu.org>  Tue, 04 Nov 2025 15:15:16 +0100
+
 phosh-osk-stevia (0.50.1) experimental; urgency=medium
 
   [ Иван Јањић ]
diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index 099ea4b606ad206a1c0d28228b6b5e1c8e7577f0..8a5e11a4c4ff5ec71faaa4d98fb68bcd3e04dc61 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 project(
   'phosh-osk-stevia',
   'c',
-  version: '0.50.1',
+  version: '0.51.rc1',
   license: 'GPLv3+',
   meson_version: '>= 1.1',
   default_options: ['warning_level=1', 'buildtype=debugoptimized', 'c_std=gnu11'],
diff --git a/tools/screenshot-all-layouts.py b/tools/screenshot-all-layouts.py
index a30202e2fbc29f00db866dd9e3280474fe644f25..0649a825093730654366174c9a822738142c1187 100755
--- a/tools/screenshot-all-layouts.py
+++ b/tools/screenshot-all-layouts.py
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ def screenshot_layouts(out):
             continue
 
         p_osk = subprocess.Popen(
-            ["_build/run", "--replace"],
+            ["_build/run", "--allow-replacement", "--replace"],
             env=dict(
                 os.environ,
                 G_DEBUG="fatal-criticals",